Mexican kidnappers hand over suspects and apologize

New Mexico [Mexico], March 10: A gang in Mexico has admitted to kidnapping four Americans and has sent an apology letter and handed over five members.
A group of four Americans were kidnapped in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas last week, in which two people were killed and one wounded in a shooting. This group of people came to the border city of Matamoros for plastic surgery.
USA Today on March 9, citing a notice from Mexican authorities , that Mexican gangs may have mistook US citizens for drug traffickers, so they opened fire and kidnapped them.
The Scorpions faction of the Gulf criminal group wrote a letter of apology to the city's residents, a Mexican woman killed by stray bullets, and four Americans and their families.
"We have decided to hand over the people directly involved and responsible for the incident, who acted according to their discretion and lacked discipline and violated the group's rules," AP quoted the content of the letter. letters.
Photos circulating on social media showed five people with their hands tied on the side of the road, four of them shirtless, and a handwritten letter taped to the windshield of a car parked next to it.
Tamaulipas officials have not confirmed the detention of the new suspects, but on March 9, the prosecutor's office said it had seized an ambulance and sealed off a clinic in Matamoros that had been used as a treatment facility. for the group of wounded Americans. A guard of a group of American citizens there was arrested.
The two surviving Americans have been brought home, while the bodies of the other two are expected to be returned soon after an autopsy.
Jerry Wallace, 62, a relative of one of the Americans, said the family was glad the man returned alive but did not accept the Mexican gang's apology. "It doesn't change what we've been through," Wallace said, calling on US and Mexican authorities to address gang violence.
Martin Sandoval, a police spokesman for the city of Brownsville, Texas (USA), where the group of Americans left for Mexico, said investigators were verifying whether the people handed over in the photos were suspects. This group of people can be extradited to the US for trial.
Source: ThanhNien Newspaper