A member of the Mexican security forces stands next to a white minivan with North Carolina plates and several bullet holes, at the crime scene where gunmen kidnapped four U.S. citizens who crossed into Mexico from Texas, Friday, March 3, 2023. Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said the four Americans were going to buy medicine and were caught in the crossfire between two armed groups after they had entered Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, on Friday. (AP Photo)

CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — A Mexican official says two U.S. citizens missing since their violent abduction last week in the northern Mexican border city of Matamoros have been found dead. Two others have been found alive, with one wounded. Tamaulipas Gov. Américo Villarreal announced on Tuesday that they had been located. 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. The surviving Americans were sped to the border near Brownsville, the southernmost tip of Texas. The convoy of ambulances and SUVs was escorted by Mexican security forces.