MEXICO CITY: A Canadian tourist was killed Friday and two more wounded in a shooting at a hotel along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, state authorities said.
Quintana Roo state security chief Lucio Hernndez said via Twitter that authorities were searching for a Hotel Xcaret guest in the shooting. He shared a photo of a man walking with a handgun.
The Xcaret resort is south of Playa del Carmen.
Hernndez said all three victims were taken to a hospital where one later died.
It is just the latest brazen act of violence along Mexico’s famed Mayan Riviera, the crown jewel of its tourism industry.
In November, a shootout on the beach of Puerto Morelos left two suspected drug dealers dead. Authorities said there were some 15 gunmen from a gang that apparently disputed control of drug sales there.
In late October, farther south in the laidback destination of Tulum, two tourists one a California travel blogger born in India and the other German were caught in the apparent crossfire of rival drug dealers and killed.
Following those events, President Andrs Manuel Lpez Obrador sent nearly 1,500 members of the National Guard to reinforce security in the area.
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