The FBI on Sunday announced a $50,000 reward for information leading to the safe return of four American citizens kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, just after they had crossed the border from the Brownsville, Texas in a white minivan with North Carolina plates on Friday, ABC News reports.
“Shortly after crossing into Mexico, unidentified gunmen shot the passengers of the vehicle. The gunmen herded the four US citizens into another vehicle and fled the scene with them,” said the US Embassy in Mexico in a statement. The identities of the Americans were not made public.