Two Americans killed in drug cartel abduction in Mexico

Mexico Missing Americans

A Red Cross worker closes the door of an ambulance carrying two Americans found alive after their abduction in Mexico last week, in Matamoros, Tuesday, March 7, 2023. Two of four Americans whose abduction in Mexico was captured in a video that showed them caught in a cartel shootout have been found dead, officials said Tuesday. The two surviving Americans were taken to the border near Brownsville, Texas, in a convoy of Mexican ambulances and SUVs. (AP Photo) Source: AAP / AP

Two US citizens who were part of a group kidnapped in Mexico have died while two others have returned to the United States after a shoot-out and abduction.


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