Two of the four Americans kidnapped at gunpoint in Mexico last week are dead and two are alive but injured and now back in the US.

Mexican and US officials confirmed Four US citizens were kidnapped by armed men on March 3 while driving into the city of Matamoros across the border from Texas, for cosmetic surgery.

One man, named only as 24-year old José “N”, from Tamaulipas, has been arrested.

The two surviving victims named by family members as Latavia “Tay” McGee, a mother of six from South Carolina, and Eric James Williams, were delivered to the US on Tuesday in co-operation with the US consulate in Matamoros.

The bodies of Zindell Brown and Shaeed Woodard have also been recovered and are being repatriated.