A shootout between suspected gang members has left two international girls useless and three injured at a restaurant in Mexico’s Caribbean seaside resort of Tulum.
The ladies killed had been from Germany and India whereas the injured had been from Germany and the Netherlands, the district legal professional’s workplace in Quintana Roo state mentioned.
Famed for its historical Mayan ruins and turquoise waters, Tulum is among the nation’s prime vacationer locations, but it surely has been shaken by turf wars between rival gangs.
Preliminary investigations indicated the taking pictures on Wednesday night was “an armed conflict between prison teams devoted to the sale of medication,” the district legal professional’s workplace mentioned in a press release.
One of many victims was killed on the scene and one other died in hospital, it added.
Tulum’s mayor, Marciano Dzul, advised Milenio tv that the victims had no identified hyperlinks to the criminals and appeared to have been caught within the crossfire.
One of many alleged gunmen had been arrested, he added.
Dzul acknowledged that Tulum was going through a wave of violence linked to rival gangs concerned in drug dealing and extortion.
Mexico is suffering from cartel-related bloodshed that has seen greater than 300,000 folks murdered because the authorities deployed the army within the “battle on medicine” in 2006.