Drug kidnapping in Tamaulipas: the shocking video of the Americans kidnapped in Mexico

Two of the four Americans kidnapped last Friday in the city of Matamoros

, Tamaulipas, in northeastern Mexico, were found dead on Tuesday, reported the Mexican authorities, who launched an operation to repatriate the victims.

The finding was confirmed by the governor of the state of Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal, in a phone call during the daily conference of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador, who announced the arrest of a suspect.

"Of the four (Americans) there are two of them dead," said the governor of this border state, who reported that the other two hostages are alive, one of them wounded.

Authorities continued to fail to identify the victims.

Now the shocking video of the kidnapping and the transfer of the corpses by the drug traffickers has been released. 

Americans kidnapped in Mexico

The footage shows the moment

, in a possible case of mistaken identity.

The US embassy in Mexico City said on Sunday that the Americans had crossed the border into the

The National Guard escorts the ambulances with the kidnapped and murdered Americans.

The video shows men in bulletproof vests dragging a person across the ground and

Next, the suspects grab two men who appear to be injured or dead and throw their bodies onto the same platform.

The violent events of Tamaulipas

A woman is transferred to the back of a drug truck.

Villarreal, governor of Tamaulipas,

and near a highway that connects the town with Bagdad beach, according to a collaborator of the AFP.

Hours later,

moved from the prosecutor's office to one of the border bridges that connect Matamoros with the US city of Brownsville.

"Federal and state corporations, with personnel from the #USA Consulate in #Matamoros, delivered 2 citizens of that country on an international bridge, located today [Tuesday] after they were deprived of their liberty on March 3," wrote the state attorney, Irving Barrios, on Twitter.

One of the American women kidnapped in Tamauilipas, Mexico.

The official did not specify if the foreigners handed over were the survivors or the deceased.

"We are going to work closely with the Mexican government to ensure that justice is done in this case," White House Homeland Security spokesman John Kirby told reporters Wednesday.

During the kidnapping, carried out by armed men, a Mexican citizen also died, authorities announced Monday.

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