Shooting between bathers on a Mexican beach near the Caribbean resort of Cancun. A shooting involving two rival gangs causing panic among foreign vacationers. There are two victims, and according to the first indications of the investigators, they are drug dealers.
After the first shots, according to witnesses, the tourists who were on the beach tried to protect themselves by running into the nearby hotels. According to the newspaper “El Universal” one of them was injured.
The incident comes two weeks after a California travel blogger and a German tourist were killed in a similar shooting in Tulum, south of Puerto Morelos.
Mexico has been in the throes of settling scores between rival gangs in the drug market for many years; Since 2006 alone, when the government decided to use the army, there have been over 300,000 victims.