Rising Violence in Mexico: Americans Kidnapped and Killed

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Rising Violence in Mexico: Americans Kidnapped and Killed
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Five men have been indicted by a Mexican judge for the abduction of four Americans, two of whom were killed, in the city of Matamoros. The men were turned in by a drug gang and left tied up on a Matamoros street with a sign claiming they were responsible for the kidnapping and killing of the Americans. The incident occurred in the violence-plagued border state of Tamaulipas.

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