Canadian shot dead in Mexico beach town, 2nd tourist killed this week – National | 24CA News
A Canadian vacationer was shot to loss of life in Mexico’s Pacific coast seashore city of Puerto Escondido, marking the second international vacationer to be killed within the state of Oaxaca this week.
The Attorney General’s Office of Oaxaca reported {that a} Canadian man was discovered lifeless in a automobile with a bullet wound on Monday. The man’s physique was discovered within the neighbourhood of Arroyo Seco in Puerto Escondido, an space not well-frequented by vacationers.
The lifeless man was recognized as Víctor Masson, 27, however no data on his hometown was out there.
Prosecutors wrote that an investigation is underway. So far, no motive for the slaying has been launched.
The killing comes three days after a vacationer from Argentina died in a machete assault in one other coastal city in Oaxaca.
On Friday, a person wielding a machete attacked a bunch of three Argentinian vacationers within the hamlet of La Isla, about 100 kilometres west of Puerto Escondido.
Benjamin Gamond died of his accidents on Monday at a hospital in Mexico City. The two different vacationers have been wounded within the assault however didn’t endure life-threatening accidents. A suspect is in custody on suspicion of murder, prosecutors mentioned.
In current months, a spate of high-profile killings has shone a highlight on rising violence in Mexico as Canadian and U.S. vacationers gear up for summer time trip.
Less than a month in the past, authorities in Cancun found eight lifeless our bodies dumped shut to one another within the metropolis. Mere weeks earlier than that, 4 males have been shot lifeless in Cancun’s resort zone close to the seashore. Mexican authorities imagine these killings are linked to drug gang chief Hector Elias Flores Aceves, also referred to as “The Panther.”
In March, two U.S. vacationers have been killed and two others have been kidnapped after they crossed the border so one in all them may get a tummy tuck surgical procedure from a health care provider within the Mexican border metropolis of Matamoros.
The U.S. State Department issued a journey alert that month warning travellers to “exercise increased caution,” particularly after darkish, at resorts in locations like Cancun, Playa del Carmen and Tulum.
In 2022, two Canadians have been killed in Playa del Carmen, apparently due to money owed between worldwide drug and weapons trafficking gangs.
The authorities of Canada doesn’t have a standing alert for the Oaxaca area, however warns that every one travellers to Mexico ought to “exercise a high degree of caution.”
“There are high rates of violent crime, such as homicides, kidnappings, carjacking and assaults, including in popular tourist destinations such as the Mayan Riviera (Cancún, Playa del Carmen, Puerto Morelos and Tulum), and Acapulco,” the advisory states.
“Criminal groups and drug cartels are present in tourist areas. Inter-gang and cartel fighting has taken place in restaurants, hotels and nightclubs frequented by tourists.”
— with information from The Associated Press
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