U.S. tourist wounded in shooting attack that killed two men at a beach in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Cancún.
MEXICO CITY -- A U.S. tourist was wounded in a shooting attack Friday that killed two men at a beach inThe prosecutor’s office in the state of Quintana Roo, where Cancún is located, said the two men apparently died of bullet wounds at the scene, and added that “a foreign woman” had been wounded and was taken for treatment to a local hospital.
Violence in the coastal state, which is home to resorts like Cancun, Playa Del Carmen and Tulum, has declined somewhat from the high levels of 2018 and 2019, when there was an upsurge in killings. There were 209 killings in the state in the first four months of 2021, down from 266 in the same period of 2020.
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