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One dead and one injured in an armed attack near a tourist park in Quintana Roo

2022-04-15T18:00:23.901Z


A man attacked the victim in an area near a water park in Playa del Carmen, leaving a taxi driver injured


A man has been injured in an attack on a tourist, in a parking lot near the Xplor park of Grupo Xcaret.CUARTOSCURO

At the beginning of the holiday bridge for Easter, a man from the city of Culiacán, Sinaloa, was shot in a parking lot near the Xplor tourist park, Xcaret, and the main access to the Hotel Xcaret, located on the federal highway. Tulum-Playa del Carmen.

The Quintana Roo State Attorney General's Office (FGE) reported, through social networks and a statement, that a man on a motorcycle had attacked the tourist, who was taken to a private hospital where he died.

The attack left a taxi driver who was passing by injured.

The #FGEQuintanaRoo reports that a few moments ago, a subject traveling on a motorcycle injured another, originally from Culiacán, Sinaloa, with a firearm, who was taken to the hospital where he died.

The events occurred in an isolated parking lot (1/2) pic.twitter.com/BoVxrdhui2

– Attorney General QR (@FGEQuintanaRoo) April 15, 2022

Although the State Prosecutor's Office insists that the place where everything happened is an "isolated and little used parking lot", the arrival of tourists to this part of the country due to the holidays has already registered an occupation of more than 85%, according to figures from the Ministry of Tourism and the hotel sector.

According to the first investigations, the Prosecutor's Office has indicated that the attack was directed at the man.

“No tourists were reported affected and the search protocols for the aggressor are applied.

Investigation folder begins, ”said the agency in a message on Twitter.

For his part, the Secretary of Public Security (SSP), Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez, pointed out that the taxi driver who was waiting in the parking lot of the tourist park was accidentally shot in the leg.

The place of the attack, as specified by the SSP to

EFE

, does not belong to the Xplor or Xcaret parks.

Subject aboard a motorcycle injures a person who was in an isolated and little-used parking lot between the Tulum-Playa del Carmen federal highway, being transferred to a hospital where he dies.

In addition, a taxi driver was injured in the leg. @SSP_QROO.

pic.twitter.com/QiHmd7PQRx

– Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez (@Lucio_HG) April 15, 2022

Grupo Xcaret, owner of seven tourist complexes in the region, has lamented, in an official statement, what happened in the parking lot, and emphasized that it is an "isolated place, outside the park and attached to the federal highway."

The director of the Xplor park, César Alcázar, reiterated his willingness to collaborate with the authorities.

The violence in the Mexican Caribbean does not stop.

On February 19, two men were murdered in a luxurious restaurant in Tulum, located on the Tulum-Bocapaila highway.

Previously, on January 21, inside the Hotel Xcaret, the double homicide of two Canadian tourists who were part of a family group that was staying at the hotel was recorded. The investigations led to the arrest of several members of an international criminal gang.

According to local authorities, the growing violence in the region is due to a dispute between drug cartels that are fighting for control of the area.

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