4 kidnapped Americans crossed into Mexico for health care(update 2 dead)

YouTube linkCIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said Monday.

The four were traveling Friday in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates. They came under fire shortly after entering the city of Matamoros from Brownsville, at the southernmost tip of Texas near the Gulf coast, the FBI said in a statement Sunday.

“All four Americans were placed in a vehicle and taken from the scene by armed men,” the FBI said. The bureau is offering a $50,000 reward for the victims' return and the arrest of the kidnappers.

Zalandria Brown of Florence, South Carolina, said she has been in contact with the FBI and local officials after learning that her younger brother, Zindell Brown, is one of the four victims. Yea stay out of Mexico

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The governor of Mexico’s Tamaulipas state said Tuesday that two of the four U.S. citizens kidnapped in the border city of Matamoros have been found dead and two others alive, one of them injured. Latavia “Tay” McGee was found alive unharmed while Eric James Williams was alive with a major wound in his left leg, said state Attorney General Irving Barrios.

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The survivors were found at a small house in a field on the outskirts of Matamoros, he said. The bodies of the two others were found in the field.

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