The four Americans kidnapped in Matamoros have reportedly been found. Two are dead, one is injured and the fourth is unharmed, according to the Associated Press.
The tragic news came hours after the Americans were identified as a group of friends who travelled to Mexico so that one of them could get a tummy tuck procedure.
Family members named the group as Latavia “Tay” McGee, Shaeed Woodard, Zindell Brown and Eric James Williams, who travelled from South Carolina.
The four were travelling in a white minivan with North Carolina licence plates when they crossed the US border into Mexico on Friday.
Not long after entering Matamoros – an area dominated by the Gulf cartel – they came under fire from a group of armed men and were bundled into the back of a pickup truck.
A video circulating on social media appears to show the four friends being loaded into a pickup truck during their abduction – many of them dragged limply into the vehicle.
The FBI offered a $50,000 reward for information leading to their return and the arrest of those responsible.