Gunmen attacked the state prosecutors’ office in this Caribbean resort city Tuesday, and authorities said four people were killed, ratcheting up tensions just a day after a shooting at a music festival in a nearby town left three foreigners and two Mexicans dead. It was too early to say if the attacks were linked, but they were a marked intrusion of bloodshed into Mexico’s main tourism zone, a region that had previously been spared much of the violence plaguing other parts of the country.
Category: Quintana Roo, Mexico
Back-to-back shootings shake Mexico’s tourism jewels
Soldiers walk inside Plaza Las Americas mall following reports of gunfire in Cancun, Mexico, Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Gunmen attacked the state prosecutor’s office in this Caribbean resort city Tuesday, ratcheting up tensions just a day after a deadly shooting at a music festival in a nearby town.
Mexico nightclub shooting: U.S. teen among dead had fallen while fleeing
A GoFundMePage was set up late Monday, Jan. 16, for Alejandra Villanueva after her family confirmed she was killed at the BPM Festival shooting in Mexico. One of five people who died at a beachfront nightclub in Mexico where gunfire erupted early Monday morning was a young Denver woman, according to the U.S. Embassy in Mexico.
Mexican resort shooting kills 5, panics festival-goers
Gunfire breaks out in a crowded beachfront nightclub throbbing with electronic music, causing five deaths and setting off a bloody stampede by screaming concertgoers at an international festival in the Mexican resort of Playa de Carmen In this photo released by Por Esto de Quintana Roo, a first responder aids a woman wounded after a shooting at an electronic music festival in the Caribbean coast resort of Playa del Carmen, Mexico, early Monday, Jan. 16, 2017. The deadly shooting occurred in the early morning hours outside the Blue Parrot nightclub while it was hosting part of the BPM electronic music festival, according to police.