Gunmen launched an attack yesterday Saturday on a convoy of Mexicans and Americans in the state of Tamaulipas, near the border of Mexico with the United States, as a result of which three people were injured.

The attack occurred as the motorcade was crossing the Roma Bridge in the city of Miguel Aleman, according to a statement from Mexico’s National Migration Institute (INM). The two trucks, which had started their journey from the US, were carrying a total of 16 Mexicans and four Americans, INM said, condemning the attack.

The injured are three Mexicans: a woman who received two bullets in the back, a 62-year-old man who was shot in the leg and a 70-year-old man who suffered a minor injury to the arm.

The four Americans traveling on the mission, three from Dallas and one from Atlanta, were two adults (ages 23 and 21) and two children (ages 14 and 19 months). None of them were injured, says the INM announcement.

A US government official told the Reuters news agency that border guards in Texas allowed entry to Mexican ambulances carrying seven people who had been shot by gunmen. All of them were taken to a nearby hospital, he added.

Authorities in the Mexican state of Tamaulipas said in a post on the X platform (formerly Twitter) that six people were hospitalized with “nervous shock” in addition to the three wounded by bullets.

Tamaulipas is plagued by drug-trafficking gangs and illegal immigrants.

Last March, four Americans were kidnapped by gunmen in this Mexican state. Two of them were later found dead, while the other two were released by their captors.