3 BODIES FOUND AFTER AUSTRALIAN, US SURFERS GO MISSING IN MEXICO

Three bodies were found in Mexico’s Baja California state, the FBI said on Friday, days after two Australians and an American went missing during a surfing trip in an area hit by cartel violence.

Authorities used a pulley system to hoist what appeared to be lifeless bodies covered in mud from a shaft on a cliff high above the Pacific.

“We confirm there were three individuals found deceased in Santo Tomas, Baja California,” a statement from the FBI’s office in San Diego, California said without providing identities of the victims.

Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Jack Carter have not been seen since April 27.

They were on holiday near the coastal city of Ensenada in the north-western state of Baja California.

But the brothers’ mother Debra Robinson said in a Facebook post that they never arrived at their planned accommodation.