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Murdered bodies ‘most likely’ those of missing surfers, Mexican | |
investigators say | |
By Stefano Pozzebon and Bertha Ramos, CNN | |
Updated: | |
11:13 PM EDT, Sun May 5, 2024 | |
Source: CNN | |
Mexican authorities said Sunday that three bodies found in the state of | |
Baja California earlier this week had been murdered and are “most | |
likely” those of three missing surfers from the US and Australia. | |
The state’s Attorney General Maria Elena Andrade told a news | |
conference that a forensic investigation had revealed that the three | |
bodies had suffered gun shots to the head and were thought to be those | |
of American Jack Carter Rhoad and Australian brothers Jake and Callum | |
Robinson. | |
The three friends are believed to have been on a surfing and camping | |
trip near the town of Ensenada, about 60 miles south of the border city | |
of Tijuana, when they went missing on April 29. | |
“It’s most likely that the three bodies are those of the three | |
surfers, but the family is still going through the identification | |
process,” Andrade said. | |
She added that the three bodies had been determined as having been | |
murdered but had not yet been formally identified. | |
Family members of the surfers arrived in Tijuana on Saturday and would | |
examine the corpses on Sunday afternoon, Andrade said. | |
Andrade said she expected the identification process to be completed | |
“in the next few hours.” | |
Three Mexican citizens who were previously brought in for questioning | |
in relation to the case have since been arrested on suspicion of | |
kidnapping, the attorney general’s office said on Friday. | |
The three bodies were found on a cliff to the south of the Ensenada | |
municipality, according to two security sources and a member of an | |
activist group specialized in searching for missing people. | |
A local police source told CNN that authorities also found the men’s | |
pickup truck, burned out, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) from where the | |
bodies were found. | |
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