Confrontation of drug traffickers on Cancun beach leaves double execution: Prosecutor's Office
So far it is unknown which criminal groups are behind the shooting in Cancun.
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Terror invaded the Petempich Bay beach of Puerto Morelos, near Cancun, in Quintana Roo, after the detonations of firearms and the uproar of tourists who ran to seek refuge.
According to the Attorney General of the State of Quintana Roo, “there was a confrontation between members of antagonistic groups of drug dealers on a beach in Bahía Petempich . Two of them lost their lives at the scene. There are no serious injuries. ”
The @ FGEQuintanaRoo reports that there was a confrontation between members of antagonistic groups of drug dealers on a beach in Bahía Petempich, Puerto Morelos. Two of them lost their lives at the scene. There are no serious injuries.
According to statements on CNN, the Attorney General of the State of Quintana Roo, Óscar Montes de Oca Rosales , reported that the two men who lost their lives were engaged in drug dealing.
“We had two people lose their lives, two drug dealers. According to the first investigations, a group of subjects arrived and shot them, one of them ran towards the hotel, but falls dead in it ”, he commented.
On In the same vein, he stressed that it was a direct attack, with one objective, “According to the information we have gathered… moments before, (the men) showed up at the hotel, saying that they were going to be in charge of selling the drug in that place, later the opposing group arrives and the events take place. we are collecting the evidence and we will continue until the arrest of the perpetrators of these events. ”
According to the Quintana Roo prosecutor, there were multiple witnesses and a person would have suffered “a gnaw”, of whom there is no identity.
Finally, he stressed that the security protocols were installed in the whole tourist area ica, in order to return to normal as soon as possible.
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On Therefore, guests published on social networks that, for security reasons, hotel staff asked them to protect themselves from the alert situation, as described on Twitter.
“They asked all the guests and employees to bend down and we were taken to places to protect ourselves,” alerted the user @MikeSington.
“We continue to hide in a dark room at the base of the hotel. Some guests told me they heard gunshots. The hotel was closed, it is said that an armed man came from the beach, ”added the same guest later.
According to a crime map released in 2020, in Quintana Roo operate the two largest cartels in the country, Sinaloa and Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) , however, so far no criminal group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
