Three bodies found in Mexico during search for three missing tourists

Mexican authorities have found three bodies in an area in Baja California where two Australian brothers and an American were missing.

The FBI has said that the bodies were found in the city of Santo Tomas and have not yet been identified, the BBC reports.

Jake, 30, and Callum Robinson, 33, from Perth, and American Jack Carter Rhoad, 30, were on a surfing holiday near the popular tourist town of Endenada. They went missing on April 27.

Mexican police on Thursday questioned a woman and two men in connection with their disappearance.

Forensic testing of the bodies will be performed by a state lab to make the identification, the Baja California District Attorney's office said.

Earlier, abandoned tents, a burnt-out white pick-up truck and a telephone linked to the missing tourists were found.

Baja California is one of the most violent states in Mexico, as local drug gangs wage turf wars.

But the surf conditions at Ensenada - 90 minutes south of the US-Mexico border - have long drawn tourists from California.