3 bodies found in Mexico identified as 2 Australians, American killed in carjacking on surfing trip

The remains of three people found near the Mexican fishing port of Ensenada are those of missing surfers from Australia and the US who were killed in an apparent carjacking, authorities said Sunday, Report informs via NBC News.

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 attorney general’s office said the bodies, found in La Bocana, south of Ensenada, are those of Jake and Callum Robinson, of Australia, and Jack Carter Rhoad, of the US.

At least two of the three were believed to be living in San Diego, authorities said, according to NBC San Diego.

The Ensenada medical examiner's office said Friday that the three victims were killed by gunshot wounds to the head.

At a news conference on Sunday, prosecutors said that the motive was carjacking and that the assailants may have been particularly focused on the wheels of the pickup truck used by the missing surfers.