Distressing video emerged Monday showing the moment four kidnapped US citizens were forced into the back of a pickup truck after being shot at in Mexico in a possible case of mistaken identity.
The US Embassy in Mexico City reported Sunday that the Americans had crossed the border into the crime-ridden city of Matamoros in Tamaulipas state in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates Friday and soon after came under fire.
Video that purports to show the Americans’ kidnapping features men wearing bulletproof vests dragging a person across the ground and roughly pushing a woman into the flatbed of a white pickup truck.
The suspects then grab two men who appear to be wounded or dead, and toss their bodies into the same flatbed.
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A US official familiar with the incident told CNN the Americans were attacked by mistake and were not the intended targets.
It is not believed the US citizens had entered Mexico for criminal purposes, according to the source.
The FBI San Antonio Division office confirmed the kidnapping Friday. The federal agency is offering a $50,000 reward for the return of the victims and the arrest of the gunmen.
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