FROM THE WASHINGON CORRESPONDENT. Two of the four American citizens who disappeared in the Mexican state of Tamaulipasare on Friday are dead. The other two however – a man and a woman – are alive and in the hands of the authorities. This was reported by the governor of the state, Americo Villareal, in a phone call during the press conference with federal president Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
The four, whose names were released by ABC (Latavia Tay McGee, 33 and mother of six, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown and Eric James Williams) had gone to Mexico to accompany a friend who wanted to undergo cosmetic surgery to remove abdominal fat.
They were aboard a white minivan with North Carolina license plates when shortly after crossing the border in the Matamoros area, they were caught in the crossfire of a clash between local gangs. It is not known why the four were kidnapped, according to some reconstructions they would have been mistaken for drug traffickers from Haiti.
Of the two released, one is wounded. President Obrador has said that one of the kidnappers is under arrest and has promised that “those responsible for the kidnapping and death of the Americans will be captured.”
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