(7 Mar 2023)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Matamoros, Mexico - 6 March 2023
1. Various of Mexico National Guard Troops stationed near site of shooting
HEADLINE: 2 Americans dead after being abducted in Mexico
2. Various of Mexican Army troops gathering to start search for missing Americans
ANNOTATIONS: Two U.S. citizens violently kidnapped last week in the northern Mexican border city of Matamoros have been found dead and two others are alive.
3. Mexican Army Humvees
ANNOTATIONS: Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal said that one of the surviving U.S. citizens was wounded and the other was not.
4. Parked Mexican Army Humvees
ANNOTATIONS: The 4 Americans came under fire shortly after entering the city of Matamoros from Brownsville, at the southernmost tip of Texas near the Gulf coast.
5. Mexican Army Humvees driving off

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Matamoros, Mexico - 6 March 2023
6. Police yellow tape blocking access
ANNOTATIONS: A video on social media showed men with assault rifles and tan body armor loading the four people into the bed of a white pickup in broad daylight.

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Matamoros, Mexico - 3 March 2023
7. STILL: Various of crashed minivan with bullet hole on driver window ++ MUTE ++

ANNOTATIONS: One was alive and sitting up, but the others seemed either dead or wounded.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Matamoros, Mexico - 6 March 2023
8. Stair steps damaged by bullet impact
9. Bullets holes on door and wall

ANNOTATIONS: At least one person appeared to lift his head from the pavement before being dragged to the truck.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Matamoros, Mexico - 3 March 2023
10. STILL: Various of crashed minivan with bullet hole on driver window ++ MUTE ++

ANNOTATIONS: The scene illustrates the terror that has prevailed for years in Matamoros, a city dominated by factions of the powerful Gulf drug cartel.
ASSOCIATED PRESS:
Matamoros, Mexico - 6 March 2023
11. Various of street

ANNOTATIONS: Amid the violence, thousands of Mexicans have disappeared in Tamaulipas state alone.
12. Various of prosecutor's office investigators

ANNOTATIONS: A relative of one of the Americans said they had traveled together from South Carolina so one of them could get a tummy tuck from a Matamoros doctor.
15. Wide of National Guard waiting to deploy

STORYLINE:
Two Americans whose abduction in Mexico was captured in a video that showed them caught in a cartel shootout have been found dead, officials said Tuesday.

Two others who were kidnapped with them were found alive, with one wounded.

Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal did not provide details on the extent of the wounded person’s injuries.

The surviving Americans were taken to the border near Brownsville, Texas, in a convoy of Mexican ambulances and SUVs, as seen by an Associated Press journalist Tuesday morning.

It was not immediately clear if the bodies of the deceased were also being returned to the U.S.

A relative of one of them said Monday that the group had traveled together from South Carolina so one of them could get a tummy tuck from a doctor in the border city of Matamoros, where Friday’s kidnapping took place.

Shortly after entering Mexico they were caught amid fighting between rival cartel groups in the city. A video showed them being loaded into the back of a pickup truck by gunmen.

Officials said a Mexican woman also died in Friday's crossfire.

The abduction illustrates the terror that has prevailed for years in Matamoros, a city dominated by factions of the powerful Gulf drug cartel who often fight among themselves.





Two of the victims appeared to be motionless.



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