Two of four Americans kidnapped in Mexico are dead - governor

Two of the four Americans kidnapped at gunpoint in Mexico last week are dead and two are still alive, a Mexican state governor has said.

Four US citizens were kidnapped at gunpoint on 3 March while driving into the city of Matamoros in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas, Mexico.

They had travelled their for cosmetic surgery, relatives told US media.

US officials have yet to confirm the deaths.

Mexico's attorney general's office confirmed that of the four Americans, "two of them are dead, one person is injured and the other is alive," the governor of Tamaulipas, Americo Villarreal, said during a news conference.

Both the Mexican and US federal government have been investigating the kidnapping and searching for the four Americans. A Mexican woman was killed in the incident last Friday.

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