UPDATE: Mexican Embassy Confirms Crashed Drone from Mexico

A spokesman for Mexico’s embassy in the United States has confirmed to CNN that the small drone that crashed Tuesday in El Paso’s lower valley was from Mexico.

There had been confusion Friday afternoon after a spokeswoman for the Mexican Attorney General’s Office disputed assertions the aircraft was Mexican.

Border Patrol officials in El Paso told ABC-7 they were sure the drone came from south of the border because the aircraft was turned over to Mexican federal police at one of the international bridges following the crash.

The remote-controlled drone went down around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday in the area near the Border Highway and Yarbrough, according to Border Patrol spokesman Mike Rocha.

Rocha told ABC-7 no one was injured and nothing was damaged.

What exactly went wrong remains under investigation in the U.S. by the National Transportation Safety Board.

Other agencies including the Border Patrol, Customs and Border Protection and the Department of Homeland Security are also investigating.

And as for a breach of the international boundary?

“By all accounts, this appears to be an accident.” Rocha said.

After some questioned why the U.S. was so quick to return the aircraft, the office of El Paso U.S. Representative Silvestre Reyes (D) issued a statement saying cooperation between the two countries is a two way-street.

“?As a practical matter, if one of our UAVs ever wound up on the Mexican side of the border, wouldn?t we want Mexico to return it as quickly as possible?,” said Reyes Spokesman Vincent Perez.

According to DefenseWorld.net, Mexico purchased the small drones known as “orbiters” in 2009 for border drug surveillance at a cost of $22 million.