The FBI said four African-Americans were abducted in a brazen attack by gunmen in the northern Mexican city of Matamoros on Friday, March 3.
On Tuesday, Mexican authorities announced that two bodies had been found and two survived, one injured.
Authorities have not shared information about the whereabouts of the surviving Americans.
US officials previously confirmed that a Mexican national was killed in the first attack.
CBS News noted that the American abductees were Latavia “Tay” McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Eric James Williams and Zindell Brown. Mexican authorities have not released any information about who died and who survived.
Zalandrea Brown, of Florence, South Carolina, told The Associated Press that she contacted the FBI and local authorities after learning her younger brother, Zindel Brown, was one of the four victims.
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Zindel Brown, who lives in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and two friends were with a third friend who was going to Mexico to have “tummy tuck” plastic surgery, Zalandria Brown said.
Zalandia Brown said the four knew the dangers of Mexico and Zindel insisted they shouldn’t go.
The FBI said the four Americans traveled Friday in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates to Matamoros, Tamaulipas, across the street from Brownsville, Texas.
The agency’s San Antonio Division office said in a statement Sunday that the vehicle was attacked shortly after entering Mexico.
Ken Salazar, the US ambassador to Mexico, said in a statement Monday that the Americans were kidnapped at gunpoint and an “innocent” Mexican national was killed in the attack.
He gave no further details but said several US law enforcement agencies are working with their Mexican counterparts to find missing US citizens.
White House press secretary Karen Jean-Pierre said Monday President Biden had been briefed on the situation.
