A road trip to Mexico for cosmetic surgery ended with two Americans dead — and two others found alive in a rural area near the Gulf coast — after a violent shootout and abduction that was captured on video, officials said Tuesday. The surviving Americans were back on U.S. soil after being sped to the border near Brownsville, the southernmost tip of Texas, in a convoy of ambulances and SUVs escorted by Mexican military Humvees and National Guard trucks with mounted .50-caliber machine guns. A relative of one of the victims said Monday that the four had traveled together from the Carolinas so one of them could get a tummy tuck from a doctor in the Mexican border city of Matamoros, where Friday’s kidnapping took place. Irving Barrios, Tamaulipas state’s top prosecutor, confirmed the two Americans were turned over to U.S. authorities at the international bridge to Brownsville, Texas. They were then taken to Valley Regional Medical Center with an FBI escort, according to the Brownsville Herald. A spokesperson for the hospital referred all inquiries to the FBI. The U.S. citizens were found in a rural area east of Matamoros called Ejido Longoreño on the way to the Gulf coast known as “Bagdad Beach,” according to a Mexican state law enforcement official. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to publicly discuss the case. Word of their location came to authorities before dawn Tuesday. FULL STORY: https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/nation-world/americans-kidnapped-in-mexico-found/507-77fa9024-fb5a-4302-9ef5-0889431646ea