A Canadian businessman is shot to death in Playa del Carmen

A Canadian businessman was killed in a firearm attack this Saturday in Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, local authorities reported.

The victim, who has not been identified by the Mexican authorities, was driving a car on the federal highway that goes from Cancun to Playa del Carmen when two armed individuals on motorcycles intercepted him, according to the newspaper Reforma.

A minor who was traveling in the car was injured during the attack, the daughter of the late businessman.

According to the Quintana Roo Attorney General's Office, she suffered minor injuries and is no longer in danger.

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The two men and the weapon they allegedly used to commit the homicide have already been turned over to the public ministry, according to authorities.

The authorities have not yet indicated what they believe was the motive for the execution in broad daylight.

The homicide occurs at a time when several murders of tourists and foreign citizens have shaken the Riviera Maya region, one of the main tourist destinations in Mexico.

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A shooting at the Xcaret hotel, one of the most exclusive in the area, left two Canadian tourists dead and another person injured on January 25.

On that occasion, the Quintana Roo authorities said that the violence had arisen from a settling of accounts related to a debt for transnational illicit activities.

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On December 8, a group of armed men aboard jet skis fired at the beach area of ​​the Oasis Palm and Royal Cancun hotels.

No one was hurt in that attack that sent dozens of families vacationing on the beach fleeing for their hotels.

According to the Mexican authorities, it was an attempt to settle accounts between rival gangs of drug dealers.

Mexican marines patrol the hotel zone of Playa del Carmen, Quintana Roo, on February 3, 2022.picture alliance / dpa/picture alliance via Getty I

On November 5, an armed commando stormed a beach in Puerto Morelos, a tourist center south of Cancun, and opened fire in front of luxury hotels, executing two suspected drug dealers from a rival gang.

The tourists fled in terror to seek refuge in their hotels.

Two weeks earlier, a California travel blogger and a German tourist were killed in a similar shooting in the coastal city of Tulum in October.