Two of four Americans kidnapped in Mexico found dead

Two of the four Americans kidnapped in Mexico on March 3 by a commando of heavily armed men died

during a firefight

.

The Mexican authorities say so.

, according to the same sources.

Mexico's President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador sent his condolences to the families.  

   The four US citizens were

, costing the life of a Mexican hit by a stray bullet.

The US ambassador to Mexico, Ken Salazar, said various agencies in his country were cooperating with Mexican authorities.

The FBI had made a reward available to anyone who offers information to locate the victims and apprehend the kidnappers.

The US ambassador took the opportunity to advise compatriots intending to visit Tamaulipas to consult the travel advisory issued by the State Department, which warns of growing criminal activity in this city that borders Texas.

For example, in a popular neighborhood of Mexican Nuevo Laredo last week five young men, one of them American, were murdered as they returned from a nightclub, at the hands of men from the

army.

Because of this action, several soldiers were arrested and transferred to a military prison also in the wake of a wave of popular indignation.

One of four Americans kidnapped in Mexico was in the country to undergo a tummy tuck, or the removal of abdominal fat

.

Two of them were found dead.

The four were identified as Latavia 'Tay' Washington, 33 and mother of six, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown and James Williams.

According to the reconstructions they were aboard their white minivan with North Carolina license plates when a man opened fire in the context of a clash between armed groups.

The four Americans were

.

One person was arrested as part of the kidnapping investigation

of four American citizens in Matamoros, Tamaulipas state, two of whom were killed.

This was announced by Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador.

During his daily press conference, the Mexican head of state assured that his government will punish those responsible for the crime because "there is no impunity in Mexico".

López Obrador then assured, Milenio TV reports, that the investigators will go to the bottom of this case in the same way as they did in 2019 with the murder of members of families with US origins in Sonora.

"Those responsible - he stressed - will be found, they will be punished, as was done when, unfortunately, women and children were killed in Bavispe by the Mexican-American Mormon family LeBarón, Miller.

"The killing of American citizens is always unacceptable wherever it occurs"

.

This was stated

, about the kidnapping of four Americans in Mexico, two of whom were found dead.

"We continue to work with the Mexican government to ensure justice is done," the White House official added in a briefing with a select group of reporters.