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2 surviving Americans who were kidnapped in Mexico are back in the U.S.

A member of the Mexican security forces stands next to a white minivan with North Carolina plates and several bullet holes at the scene of the crime in Matamoros on Friday. (Stringer/AP)

Two of the four Americans who were held captive and survived a kidnapping in Mexico last week were taken back into the U.S. shortly before noon on Tuesday amid a heavily armed convoy of Mexican military Humvees and National Guard trucks with mounted machine guns.

The State Department said on Tuesday that the surviving victims were both repatriated with the assistance of the Mexican government. The department didn't name them, but the mother of LaTavia Washington McGee confirmed she is at a Texas hospital and the brother of Eric Williams told NPR he is recovering from a gunshot wound to the leg in the U.S.

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