The events took place at the Xcaret hotel in Playa del Carmen.
Two dead and one injured, all of Canadian origin, left a shooting occurred inside a hotel located in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmenofficial sources reported.
The Secretary of Public Security of the state of Quintana Roo, Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez, confirmed on social networks that the shots were fired after an argument between guests.
“Derived from the report of firearm shots in the interior of the Xcaret hotel, three people are reported injured, derived from a discussion between hotel guests, “said Hernández Gutiérrez in a first message.
Later he indicated that in the “deplorable events” of the Xcaret hotel, “The three injured were immediately taken to hospital., where unfortunately one dies “and added that” the three guests are of Canadian origin “.
Hours later, the Quintana Roo State Attorney General’s Office reported on Twitter that a second Canadian, admitted to the hospital, had also died.
Regarding the first person who lost his life, the Prosecutor’s Office said “he had criminal record: drug trafficking, false identity use, among others”, while confirming “the death of another person who was injured”, who also had a “criminal record” in his country.
The person in charge of security in the state published a third message with images of one of those responsible, who was brandishing a weapon and said that he was the one who shot the Canadian guests.
Police authorities keep calling code red in force throughout the northern zone of Quintana Roo To try to locate the aggressor, the National Guard, the Mexican Army and local corporations participate in the deployment.
So far, the three Canadian tourists involved in the armed confrontation have only been identified as Jessica, 29, and Thomas and Robert, both 34, the first lost his life while being transferred by ambulance and the second died in hospital.
Regarding both deceased, the Prosecutor’s Office previously said in a statement that “according to information from the Canadian police, it is known that this subject had a long history related to robberies, drugs, weapons, crimes against property -among others- in that country.
Despite the presence of the newtourist security battalion”, made up of some 1,500 agents who were deployed in early December from Cancun to Tulum, this is the latest episode in the wave of violence facing the Mexican Caribbean that the federal government has attributed to clashes between drug traffickers.
In early November 2021, an armed group broke into a beach in Bahía Petempich, an exclusive area of the municipality of Puerto Morelos, in the state of Quintana Roo, and killed two suspected members of a rival group.
In October, a shooting in a restaurant in the resort of Tulum – one of the most fashionable places in the Mexican Caribbean – left two foreign tourists dead and three others wounded.
While just last January 13 of this year there was an armed attack at the entrance of the archaeological zone of Tulum which left one person dead and a minor with gunshot wounds.
Mexico lived in 2021 another violent year with 33,308 intentional homicides and different massacres that hit the country and dyed it red despite the slight decrease in cases compared to the previous year.
According to official data presented by the Ministry of Security and Citizen Protection (SSPC), Mexico registered 33,308 intentional homicides last year, 3.6% at 34,554 murders of 2020. (I)
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