Gunfire in Cancun

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ChuckP

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Not Cozumel but close enough - stuff can be crazy here:

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Cancun beach attack left two dead and an injured tourist.
Two people killed and a severely injured tourist was the balance of an armed attack that occurred on Friday at Turtle Beach located at Cancun Hotel Zone 6.5, causing chaos on the scene.
This incident was recorded around 14:00 hours when the emergency number was activated by several calls for relief referring to firearm detonations in the above mentioned area so that several tourist police officers immediately approached the site for confirm the fact.
Paramedics from Private Life company mobilized to the site to provide first responders to victims, but two men no longer had vital signs so they only moved one female tourist originating in Kentucky, United States, to a particular clinic for care Medical.
Later it was known that the young tourist who received a gun impact, ended up being taken to the General Hospital and her health status is reported as serious.
At the scene it transcended that there were three unknown subjects who attacked two people when they were on the outskirts of a trade, where unfortunately, a tourist was passing and was injured at the left shoulder height, the aggressors fled aboard jet skis ..
An intense police mobilisation was recorded on other public beaches in the hotel area where this moment was only known what a Chevy type vehicle was found abandoned in which it is currently being investigated by FGE investigative police, until the moment no detainees.
 
If I found the correct location on the map, it looks like this is very near the city - maybe 'technically' within the hotel zone, but not along the long stretch that most of us think of (at least I think of). Still, this is scary. Not as scary as living in St Louis, but still ...
 
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