US authorities support investigation into fatal accident of woman in Arizona on highway in Mexico
Donald Trump travels to the Arizona border before his stopover in Glendale
Donald Trump visits Cochise County and the Arizona-Mexico border on August 22, 2024, before his stop in Glendale at the Desert Diamond Arena.
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Mexican authorities were investigating the deaths of two Arizona women after their bodies were found Friday along a highway in Sonora, Mexico, the northern state bordering Arizona.
At around 10:30 a.m., Mexican authorities received reports of two dead women in an overturned vehicle on the Sonora-Caborca highway. The outside of the vehicle was riddled with bullet holes, the Sonora Attorney General said in a press release on X (formerly Twitter).
The attorney general released only the last names of the two women and identified them as 72 and 82-year-old Arizona residents originally from Caborca, a city in northern Sonora.
Mexican investigators believe the two women were attacked on the street. Authorities found a stolen Ford F-150 truck as well as firearms, ammunition and bulletproof vests believed to be connected to the shooting, the press release said.
A US State Department spokesman confirmed the deaths of the two women, both US citizens, on Tuesday.
“We express our deepest condolences to the family and relatives of the deceased,” the spokesman said.
The Foreign Ministry said it was “closely monitoring the situation” but declined to provide further details.
A spokesman for the Phoenix field office said the FBI is assisting Mexican authorities in the case.
