Two Americans are back on U.S. soil after surviving a deadly kidnapping in Mexico, and have been taken to a Texas hospital for treatment, officials said. Two...
were hauled off in a pickup truck, and Mexican authorities frantically searched as the cartel moved them around — even taking them to a medical clinic — “to create confusion and avoid efforts to rescue them,” Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal said.
of one of the victims said Monday that the four had traveled together from the Carolinas so one of them could get a tummy tuck from a doctor in Matamoros.At a Tuesday afternoon news conference, reporters asked whether the attack had anything to do with allegations in Mexico that one of the victims had ties to U.S. intelligence. “There is no fundamental information to make us think they [had anything to do] with FBI,” said Villarreal.
Matamoros is home to warring factions of the Gulf drug cartel. Shootouts there on Friday were so bad that the U.S. Consulate issued an alert about the danger and local authorities warned people to shelter in place.
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Two Americans who survived a violent kidnapping in Matamoros, Mexico, are in a Texas hospitalAmbulances transported the two Americans over Veterans International Bridge and into Texas around 11 a.m. Tuesday. They were brought to Valley Regional Medical Center in Brownsville.
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Americans Kidnapped in Matamoros Were Wrong Targets: ReportAn unidentified U.S. official told CNN on Monday that authorities now believe the Americans were targeted in error after crossing over into Mexico to buy medicine.
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