The bodies of Adam Coleman, left, and Dean Lucas (pictured with girlfriend Josie Cox) have been identified
The bodies of two men found in a burned-out van in Mexico's Sinaloa state are exactly who authorities feared they were: Australian surfers Dean Lucas and Adam Coleman.
Sinaloa
Attorney General Marco Antonio Higuera confirmed during a Tuesday news
conference that the bodies had been identified via a DNA test. The men,
both 33, have been missing since last month.
Authorities
have made three arrests but are still seeking two men in connection
with the case: Julio Cesar Gonzalez Muniz and Jesus Uriel Camacho
Labrada, Higuera said.
The three suspects in custody were
low-level drug dealers who had been robbing motorists on a stretch of
road leading south through the Sinaloan city of Navolato, Higuera said
previously.
Lucas and Coleman were on a surfing trip from Canada to Mexico but failed to arrive as planned in the city of Guadalajara on November 21.
Two bodies were found in a van the same day, on a back road in remote farmlands in Sinaloa -- home of the Sinaloa drug cartel.
None of the five suspects is part of a major drug cartel, Higuera said.
