American survivors of a deadly kidnapping by a Mexican cartel say their accomplices tried to force them to have sex at gunpoint.

• Survivors of a Mexican cartel kidnapping reveal new details about the ordeal.

• The two survivors told CNN that their captors put a gun to their heads and tried to force them to have sex.

• The kidnapping happened last month in the Mexican border city of Matamoros.

A couple of Americans who survived last month Deadly Mexican cartel kidnapping He described his ordeal, including how his captors held guns to their heads and tried to force each other to have sex.

Latavia Washington Maggie and Eric Williams He told CNN’s Anderson Cooper. In an interview Tuesday, friends Zindel Brown and Shaid Woodward, as well as another bystander, are still reeling from the attack.

“They didn’t deserve this. None of us did. But we’re alive – we’ve got a lot to recover from,” Washington McGee told Cooper.

The four American friends were shot and kidnapped by gunmen in northern Mexico on March 3. The team traveled from South Carolina to the Mexican border town of Matamoros in a rented white minivan for Washington McGee’s scheduled cosmetic surgery.

After the group lost a side road crossing the US-Mexico border, the shooting suddenly began, according to survivors.

While in captivity, they were sometimes blindfolded, and the captors wore red plastic “Diablo masks,” Williams said. “They put guns to our heads so we wouldn’t look up,” the captors said.

At one point, the kidnappers “tried to get us to have sex with each other,” Williams said. Williams said he and Washington Magee told the hostages they were brother and sister and that Washington Magee was pregnant. It is unclear if Williams and Washington McGee are actually related.

Washington McGee told Cooper that during the nightmarish days of ordeal, one of the captors apologized, saying, “Someone made the wrong call. They were high and drunk.”

A U.S. official previously told CNN that investigators believe a drug cartel has identified Americans as Haitian drug traffickers.

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