Americans kidnapped in Mexican border city, FBI says

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Four U.S. citizens were kidnapped after gunmen opened fire on their vehicle in the northern Mexico border city of Matamoros, the FBI said Sunday in a CBS News Report. Ken Salazar, U.S. ambassador to Mexico, said in a statement that “an innocent Mexican citizen was tragically killed” in the same incident.

The four had entered Matamoros, across from Brownsville, Texas, on Friday, in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates, the agency said. The FBI San Antonio Division office said the vehicle came under fire shortly after it entered Mexico.

“All four Americans were placed in a vehicle and taken from the scene by armed men,” the office said.

A post on Twitter Friday appears to show the moment they were kidnapped, CBS News’ Christina Ruffini reports. One woman, walking on her own, was forced into a white pickup truck. Men armed with long guns and wearing bulletproof vests are then seen dragging one person after another into the vehicle.

The conditions of the four are unknown. The video posted online appears to show some of them may be injured, according to the CBS report.