A British businessman was killed this Saturday in Mexico
's Playa del Carmen
, one of the most popular Caribbean tourist destinations in the country, reported the Quintana Roo State Attorney General's Office (FGE), which also announced
two detainees
.
At first it was reported that the businessman was of Canadian nationality, but the Mexican Prosecutor's Office has concluded that his nationality was British.
"A homicide by firearm was recorded on the
Federal Highway Cancun-Playa del Carmen and Av. Xcalacoco
in the municipality of Solidaridad. The victim is a male of foreign origin with permanent resident immigration status," the FGE said in a statement.
The man
was traveling with his son in a vehicle
when two armed individuals on a motorcycle intercepted them.
The minor "had minor injuries and is out of danger," the agency added.
"There are already two subjects detained, who probably participated in the events recorded this morning in which a foreigner residing in the municipality of Solidaridad lost his life. They were already made available to the prosecutor of the Public Ministry with the weapon used," concluded the FGE .
The fact reflects the wave of violence suffered by
Quintana Roo
, the main tourist state in Mexico, which has reached foreigners.
Also in
Playa del Carmen
, two other Canadians were killed in a shootout at the end of January, in an incident related to drug trafficking that prompted the US FBI and the Canadian Mounted Police to investigate.
A week after that shooting, Argentine Federico Mazzoni, who was the manager of a popular establishment in
Playa del Carmen
, Mamita's Beach Club, was shot to death.
While on February 20, two men died and one more was injured in a shooting at a luxury restaurant in
Tulum
, one of the most fashionable places in the Caribbean.
Months before in that same destination, in October, a
shooting in a restaurant
left two foreign tourists dead and three others wounded.
The violence has not ceased despite the creation in December of a "tourist security battalion", made up of about 1,500 agents of the National Guard (GN).
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