Three bodies found last week in the Mexican state of Baja California have been identified as those of three tourists from Australia and the United States who disappeared days earlier, Mexican authorities said Sunday.
The bodies were confirmed to be those of Callum and Jake Robinson, two brothers from Perth, Australia, and Jack Carter Rhoad, the Baja California attorney general's office said in a statement. “The confirmation comes after the families of the victims were able to identify them without the need for genetic testing,” the statement said.
The Robinsons and Mr. Rhoad, a U.S. citizen, had been on vacation, surfing and camping along the coast near the Mexican city of Ensenada, when they disappeared on April 27. The Robinsons' mother said in a social media post Wednesday that they had never shown up at an Airbnb they booked in another coastal city.
Early Friday, Mexican authorities said recovered the three bodies from a 15 meter deep water hole near La Bocana beach. A fourth, unidentified male body that prosecutors say is unrelated to the case was also at the bottom of the hole.
Each of the tourists suffered a gunshot wound to the head, said María Elena Andrade Ramírez, the state's attorney general.
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