MEXICO CITY—Gunmen kidnapped four U.S. citizens who crossed into Mexico from Texas last week to buy medicine and got caught in a shootout that killed at least one Mexican citizen, U.S. and Mexican officials said Monday.
The four came under fire Friday shortly after entering the city of Matamoros from Brownsville, the southernmost tip of Texas near the Gulf coast, in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates, the FBI San Antonio Division office said in a statement Sunday.
“All four Americans were placed in a vehicle and taken from the scene by armed men,” the office said. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for the victims’ return and the arrest of the culprits….