Two of the four US citizens kidnapped after crossing over the border into northeastern Mexico have been found dead, a senior Mexican official has said.
The attorney general’s office confirmed that of the four abductees “two of them are dead, one person is injured and the other is alive”, Tamaulipas state governor Americo Villarreal told the Mexican president by telephone at a news conference Tuesday.
Mexican President Manuel Lopez Obrador said one person was in custody in relation to the kidnapping in Tamaulipas, which has long been one of the most violent states in Mexico.
The four US citizens had crossed from Texas into Matamoros, Mexico on Friday, when their white minivan was fired upon in what authorities said was the crossfire of rival cartel groups.
Al Jazeera’s Manuel Rapalo joins us live from Mexico City for the latest updates.
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What’s the ransom?
About tree fiddy
@J K. that’s chump change
None. Most likely taken in mistake
Cartel get their guns & ammo in texas………. maga ?
That’s what happens when you go after the bosses and Sinaloa no order.
They should have stayed home in the safety of Baltimore, Washington DC, e st Louis, new Orleans, chicago, oakland……
Well they where alive before entering Mexico buddy so yes u are right
HIIIIHOOOOO HAAAA HIIIIHOOOOO 😂😄😂😆😄 well said!!!!!!!
I go to Tijuana and Mexicali Baja California all the time it’s definitely safe now compared to Tamaulipas
Don’t compare West of Mexico with Northeast of Mexico….. Different world… Hurt to say Sinaloa are the Good people of cartel compare to Cartel Del Noreste (former Los Zetas)… Sinaloa don’t usually Harm Civillian.. If you don’t interfere with business… On the other hand you a fare game in Northeast of Mexico
@Tholomew Plague exactly the sinalola are respectable business men and women no human trafficking either.
@Tholomew Plague yeah im saying that Sinaloa areas are fine to visit if you don’t do anything dumb, the Texas border areas are run by vicious vatos
@Tholomew Plague glad to be of sinaloense heritage I got off from a lot of stuff even in west Mexico
The prudent man, seeing evil, hides himself,
the simpletons go on and suffer the loss.
ROFL
america is so weak.
And then to think I warned the yanks NOT to go to other countries ESPECIALLY not the ones where people live that they oppress and discriminate against….. so I warned them a LONGGGGGGG timeago but ey you know how the yanks are right ? They think they are the BEST !!! Hahahaha they THINK the the world loves them …… and that is where it goes wrong with them, they do NOT understand that they are not wanted anywhere ESPECIALLY not in Mexico and then they start crying like they’re doing right now… yanks are crybabies that is what they are….screw these yanks….. they are gone and dead ? GOOD !!!! Because a good yank is a dead one … REMEMBER that !!!!!!!!!
I’m an American and I live just west of Matamoros in a tiny town. Trust me when I say I am safer there that I am in any liberal American city.
BULLSHIT
They probably couldn’t carry the blk woman cuz she was too big 😅
“America is back”
Said brandon o’biden
This will be a good excuse to try out some new drones.
When will America wage war against Mexico like they do with other countries
you only got kidnaped in those places if you deserve, I’m Mexican and I travel to the border and everyone knows this.
The price of crued oil can be raised up to 160 to 200 $ per barrel next month….
The smart thing to do would be to legalize drug use first, wait, then go to war, so that the cartels could be weakened and destabilized before making a drive for them.