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4 Americans kidnapped had traveled to Mexico for health care, officials say

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CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico - Four Americans who traveled to Mexico last week to seek health care got caught in a deadly shootout and were kidnapped by heavily armed men who threw them in the back of a pickup truck, officials from both countries said Monday.The four were traveling Friday in a white minivan with North Carolina license plates.

They came under fire shortly after entering the city of Matamoros from Brownsville, at the southernmost tip of Texas near the Gulf coast, the FBI said in a statement Sunday."All four Americans were placed in a vehicle and taken from the scene by armed men," the FBI said.

The bureau is offering a $50,000 reward for the victims' return and the arrest of the kidnappers.RELATED: US issues strongest-possible 'do not travel' warning for Mexico ahead of spring breakZalandria Brown of Florence, South Carolina, said she has been in contact with the FBI and local officials after learning that her younger brother, Zindell Brown, is one of the four victims."This is like a bad dream you wish you could wake up from," she said in a phone interview. "To see a member of your family thrown in the back of a truck and dragged, it is just unbelievable."Zalandria Brown said her brother, who lives in Myrtle Beach, and two friends had accompanied a third friend who was going to Mexico for a tummy tuck surgery.

A doctor who advertises such surgeries in Matamoros did not answer calls seeking comment.Brown said the group was extremely close and they all made the trip in part to help split up the driving duties.

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