Mexican authorities said Thursday they had found a tent and questioned three people in the Pacific coast state of Baja California, where two Australians and an American went missing over the weekend.
The state’s chief prosecutor, María Elena Andrade Ramírez, did not say whether the three people questioned were considered possible suspects or witnesses in the case. She said only that some were directly related to the case and others indirectly.
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But Andrade Ramirez said evidence found with the abandoned tent somehow connected the three people. The three foreigners are believed to have been surfing and camping on the Baja coast near the coastal city of Ensenada, but did not show up at their planned accommodation for the weekend.
“A team of (investigators) was at the scene where they were last seen, where they found a tent and other evidence that could be related to these three people we are investigating,” Andrade Ramirez said. Stated. “There is a lot of important information that cannot be made public.”
Mexican authorities have found a tent and questioned three people in connection with the disappearance of two Australians and an American in the Pacific coast state of Baja California over the weekend. (Fox News)
“We don’t know what condition they are in,” she added. Drug cartels are active in the area, she said, but “everything is being investigated at the moment. Until we find them, we can’t eliminate anything.”
On Wednesday, missing Australian mother Debra Robinson posted an appeal on a local community Facebook page asking for help finding her sons Jake and Callum. Robinson said she had not heard from her son since Saturday, April 27, and that she had booked accommodation in the nearby city of Rosarito, Baja California.
Robinson said one of her sons, Callum, is diabetic. She also said the American who was with her was named Jack Carter Lord, but the U.S. Embassy in Mexico City did not immediately confirm that. The U.S. State Department said it was aware of reports of Americans missing in Baja, but gave no further details.
Andrade Ramirez said her office was in contact with officials in Australia and the United States. But she suggested they may become harder to find over time.
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“Unfortunately, it was only in the last few days that they were reported missing, which means that critical hours or hours were lost,” she said.
In 2015, two Australian surfers, Adam Coleman and Dean Lucas, were killed in the western state of Sinaloa, across the Gulf of California (also known as the Sea of Cortez) from the Baja Peninsula. Authorities said they were victims of a highway robbery. Three suspects were arrested in that case.
