Deadly American kidnapping in Mexico: What you need to know
1 year, 9 months ago

Deadly American kidnapping in Mexico: What you need to know

Al Jazeera  

Four Americans were hauled off in a pick-up truck after allegedly being caught in the crossfire of a shootout between rival drug gangs. Four Americans were caught in a drug cartel shootout in Mexico with two killed and the others held captive for days in a remote region before being rescued. Mexican authorities frantically searched as the cartel allegedly involved moved them around – even taking them to a medical clinic – “to create confusion and avoid efforts to rescue them”, Tamaulipas Governor Américo Villarreal said. Video and photographs taken during and immediately after the attack show the Americans’ white minivan sitting beside another vehicle, with at least one bullet hole in the driver’s side window. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said the people responsible would be punished, referencing arrests in the 2019 killings of nine US-Mexican dual citizens in Sonora near the border.

History of this topic

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