Tourist shot to death in popular Mexican resort town days after another tourist killed in machete attack

A Canadian tourist has been shot and killed in a Mexican seaside city simply days after a vacationer from Argentina was hacked to dying in a machete assault in the identical Pacific coast resort space.

Prosecutors within the Mexican state of Oaxaca say the Canadian man was discovered useless in a automobile with a bullet wound within the city of Puerto Escondido, a relaxed seaside city common with surfers, on Monday. 

No particulars had been revealed concerning the precise circumstances of the person’s dying, however he was recognized as 27-year-old Víctor Masson.

Masson’s dying comes three days after a vacationer from Argentina was killed in a machete assault within the state of Oaxaca, usually thought of one of many safer states in Mexico, roughly 60 miles west of Puerto Escondido within the hamlet of La Isla.

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Playa Zicatela bordered by palm timber, Puerto Escondido, State of Oaxaca, Mexico. (DEA / G. COZZI / Contributor)

The Argentine was recognized as Benjamin Gamond and Mexican police say he was certainly one of three vacationers from Argentina attacked by a person wielding a machete on Friday and that he died within the hospital after the assault. His two journey companions suffered non-life-threatening accidents. 

The present State Division travel advisory urges People to “Train Elevated Warning When Touring” to Oaxaca.

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Puerto Escondido Seashore, State of Oaxaca, Mexico. (DEA / G. COZZI / Contributor)

A number of vacationers have been victimized by crime to date in 2023 together with a Mexican vacationer who was shot to death within the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum in a dramatic theft at a U.S. chain espresso store in April.

In March, an American vacationer was shot in the leg by unknown assailants within the city of Puerto Morelos exterior of Cancun throughout spring break. The person survived his accidents.

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Aerial view of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca State, Mexico (AFP PHOTO / MARIO VAZQUEZ )

Reuters contributed to this report.