Borderland Beat republished from Valley Central and AP
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The following is an update in connection with the 3 missing American post
The following is an update in connection with the 3 missing American post
A Mexico state official says four bodies have been found east of the border city of Matamaros, which is the area where three young Americans have been missing more than two weeks.
Tamaulipas state investigator Raul Galindo Vira will say only that the four bodies were found Wednesday morning.
A second state official says investigators are trying to determine if the dead include three siblings from Progreso, Texas, who went missing with a fourth person (on) Oct. 13. The official insisted on speaking anonymously because he was not authorized to speak to the press.
Alvarado family desperate for answers
The father of the three siblings lives in Tamaulipas, and it was him they were visiting.
Mexican authorities on Wednesday asked the siblings' father what they were wearing when they disappeared, mother Raquel Alvarado told The Associated Press.
According to the Alvarado, her daughter, is the mother of four children aged 3-9, and drove her black Jeep Cherokee across the border Oct. 12 and dropped it at her father's house in El Control. She visited her boyfriend there and the next morning called her brothers to ask them to bring the Cherokee to a roadside restaurant where the couple was eating. The three siblings planned to return to Progreso together from there.
When Alex and Jose Angel Alvarado arrived to pick up their sister, they saw men "pushing their sister and her boyfriend and hitting her," Raquel Alvarado said. The brothers tried to intervene, witnesses said, but were taken away with their sister and her boyfriend. Witnesses said the armed men identified themselves as Grupo Hercules, a police security unit for Matamoros city officials, and were traveling in military style trucks. She said witnesses also saw federal highway police, "but no one did anything."
Alvarado said she is trying to contact Mexican authorities to see if they are her children.
She said is she doesn't get a response, she plans to go to Mexico.