Bodies of murdered Australian, US surfers identified in Mexico


by Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera— The three men were killed during a camping and surfing trip along Mexico's Pacific coast.

NPR—Bodies found in Mexico identified as missing American and two Australians. Thieves apparently killed the three, who were on a surfing trip to Mexico's Baja peninsula, to steal their truck because they wanted the tires, Mexican authorities said.

NBC News—3 bodies found in Mexico identified as 2 Australians, American killed in carjacking on surfing trip. SAN DIEGO — The remains of three people found near the Mexican fishing port of Ensenada are those of missing surfers from Australia and the U.S. who were killed in an apparent carjacking, authorities said Sunday. Family members made the identifications in person at the behest of Baja California state prosecutors, the state attorney general's office said in a statement Sunday obtained by NBC San Diego. The bodies had been recovered from a remote well about 50 feet deep, authorities said. The...

Yahoo—Australian PM: Death of 2 Australian surfers in Mexico every parent's 'worst nightmare'. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the death of two Australian surfers in Mexico was every parent's "worst nightmare." Albanese spoke to reporters in Perth on Wednesday, the home town of brothers Callum and Jake Robinson, after speaking with their parents Debra and Martin Robinson.