MEXICO CITY — The parents of an American and two Australian surfers presumed to have been killed in northern Mexico have arrived in the country and will try to identify the dead bodies believed to be their children, a Mexican regional official said on Sunday (May 5).

Authorities in the Baja California state are conducting forensic tests on three corpses they found in a well this week and which they believe to be Australian brothers Callum, 33, and Jake Robinson, 30, as well as American Carter Rhoad, 30.

But those tests are taking some time and Baja California's state Attorney General Maria Elena Andrade said the parents are currently filling out paperwork to see if the bodies can be "physically identified, that is to say, in plain sight."

If the parents are able to identify the bodies, it would void the need for DNA tests, Andrade said at a press conference.

The three foreigners went missing while on a vacation surfing near the popular tourist town of Ensenada, about 90 minutes south of the US-Mexico border on the Pacific coast.

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