Mexican tourist fatally shot in Caribbean coast resort of Tulum

A Mexican vacationer has been shot to loss of life within the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum in a dramatic theft at a U.S. chain coffee shop, prosecutors and police stated Tuesday.

The vacationer apparently refused handy over an costly watch he was carrying, and was shot by the robbers.

Video of the killing posted on social media Tuesday confirmed males with motorbike helmets burst into the espresso store at gunpoint Monday.

One other man within the video, reportedly the sufferer’s bodyguard, then took out a pistol and opened fire on the robber, who fled.

The bodyguard chased the robber towards the road and stored firing at him by means of the shop’s door.

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Police within the coastal state of Quintana Roo stated one of the thieves fled was wounded and later arrested at an area hospital.

State Prosecutor Oscar Montes de Oca stated the bodyguard had been launched as a result of he had a weapons allow, and should have been appearing in self protection.

It was the newest chapter of continuous violence on Mexico’s resort-studded Caribbean coast, the crown jewel of the nation’s tourism trade.

Final week, 4 males in Cancun, north of Tulum , have been killed in a dispute related to drug gang rivalries.

Drug gang chief Hector Flores Aceves, recognized by his nickname “Pantera,” or the Panther, was being sought in reference to the killings.

A Mexican vacationer was shot to loss of life at a Tulum resort as a result of he refused to present his watch to robbers.  (Fox Information)

The useless males have been discovered within the metropolis’s lodge zone close to the seashore. The killings got here as Cancun kicked off the Easter Week holidays, considered one of its busiest occasions of the yr.

A U.S. vacationer was shot within the leg within the close by city of Puerto Morelos in March. The motive in that is still underneath investigation.

The U.S. State Department issued a travel alert final month warning vacationers to “train elevated warning,” particularly after darkish, at Mexico’s Caribbean seashore resorts like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum, which have been suffering from drug gang violence prior to now.

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In 2022, two Canadians have been killed in Playa del Carmen, apparently due to money owed between worldwide drug and weapons trafficking gangs.

In 2021, in Tulum, two vacationers — one a California journey blogger born in India and the opposite German — have been killed after they apparently have been caught within the crossfire of a gunfight between rival drug sellers.