Mexican cartel members were arrested after the bodies of five missing Mexican musicians were found along the US border on Thursday.
Investigators began searching for members of the music band Grupo Fugitivo after they were kidnapped on Sunday night.
The deceased bodies were discovered on the Mexican side of the border just south of McAllen, Texas.
According to local reports, relatives of the musicians received ransom demands before the group of men was reportedly found badly burned in the city of Reynosa in Tamaulipas.
The US State Department currently advises against all travel to Tamaulipas, Mexico, due to kidnappings and cartel violence, especially in the border region of Reynosa.
CBS News reported:
The bodies of five musicians, members of a Mexican regional music group who had gone missing, were found in the northern city of Reynosa along the Texas border, authorities said on Thursday.
The musicians from the band Grupo Fugitivo, which played at parties and local dances in the region, had been reported missing since Sunday.
Tamaulipas state prosecutors, who had been investigating their disappearance, said the men were kidnapped around 10 p.m. that night while traveling in a SUV on the way to a venue where they were hired to play. Their bodies were found on the fringes of Reynosa. Prosecutors said nine suspects believed to be part of a faction of the Gulf Cartel, which has strong presence in the city, have been arrested.
Authorities were not immediately able to say why the men were slain, and did not deny reports by local media that the bodies had been burned.
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