Mexican cartel ‘apologizes’ for American kidnappings | USA TODAY

A Mexican drug cartel, claiming its members were behind the kidnapping of four Americans, handed over five of its members.

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Photos circulating on social media show five men on the pavement with their hands tied – four of them shirtless – in front of a pickup truck, which has a handwritten letter of apology on the windshield.

The AP reported obtaining a copy of the letter from a law enforcement source in Tamaulipas, the Mexican state where the American travelers were attacked. Two of them were killed and another one wounded in a shooting Friday shortly after arriving in the border city of Matamoros for cosmetic surgery.

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