The survivors of the Mexico 'tummy tuck four' have said cartel gangsters tried to make them have sex with each other.
Four Americans were kidnapped by a notorious Mexican drug cartel members last month.
They were scared of entering the area and one of them had even said "we shouldn't go down" before he was tragically killed, it has emerged.
The group was travelling to Matamoros, in Tamaulipas, Mexico so one of them could have a tummy tuck surgery, when they were attacked and kidnapped.
Latavia “Tay” McGee and Eric James Williams survived and returned to their families, while Shaeed Woodard and Zindell Brown were killed.
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The two surviving Americans were rescued by authorities after three days being held by the gunmen.
Now McGee and Williams have spoken out revealing grim new details about their ordeal.
In an interview with CNN's Anderson Cooper, Williams said: "They tried to make us have sex with each other but we told them we were brother and sister and that she was pregnant."
As they were moved between cartel safehouses, the survivors had to hide underneath the dead bodies of their friends.
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Its believed the kidnappers thought the four were a group of rival Haitian drug dealers. Once news of who they really were spread, one cartel gangster tried to shift the blame.
Ms McGee continued: "He said there's nothing we can do to bring your two brothers back but we're sorry, somebody made the wrong call, he was high and drunk, and I am from America too.
"He said, 'I am fighting with my boss for him to give you up' and that once he let us go, he'd have to leave too because they would kill him."
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According to the governor of the region Tamaulipas, Américo Villarreal, the Americans were moved about “to create confusion and avoid efforts to rescue them.”
Eventually the hostages were found in a cramped wooden hut along with the body of their friend with the second body found outside.
Mexican police arrested Jose Guadalupe N., 24, who was found guarding the scene.
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Ms McGee's mum revealed that the killings of the other two occurred in front of her daughter.
Barbara Burgess told ABC15 : “She was crying. I asked her how she was doing. She doing okay.
"She was crying because her brother got killed and she watched him die. She watched two of them die. They died in front of her."
In the wake of the kidnappings Mexican authorities announced that 300 personnel, including 200 soldiers of the Mexican army have been sent to Matamoros to police the area and help bring down the drug cartels.