A shooting between drug traffickers leaves two dead and scenes of panic on the beach of a hotel near Cancun, tourists who were on the beach tried to protect themselves by running to nearby hotels.
Shooting between narcos on Mexican beach leaves two dead and tourists in panic
Gunfire between bathers on a Mexican beach near the Caribbean resort of Cancun. A shootout involving two rival gangs caused panic among foreign vacationers. There are two victims, and according to initial indications from investigators, they are drug traffickers.
After the first shots were fired, tourists on the beach tried to protect themselves by running to nearby hotels. According to the newspaper “El Universal” one of them was wounded.
“Everyone was running from the beach and swimming pools. The staff pushed us into rooms hidden behind kitchens,” said one of them, Mike Sington, an American tourist. Videos posted on social media showed dozens of people, some in bathing suits, waiting in the hotel lobby alongside staff. There are those hugging each other, those crying.
The incident comes just two weeks after a California travel blogger and a German tourist were killed in a similar shooting in Tulum, south of Puerto Morelos.
Mexico has been in the midst of many years of reckoning between rival gangs in the drug market; since 2006 alone, when the government decided to use the army, there have been more than 300,000 casualties.
All guests and employees told to duck, and we’re all taken to hiding places at Hyatt Ziva Riviera Cancun Resort. Active shooter? Terrorist or kidnapping threat? They’re not telling us anything. pic.twitter.com/Hf7SRzRJIZ
— Mike Sington (@MikeSington) November 4, 2021
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