1 dead, 6 injured in Mexico shooting

Mexican authorities said today, that one person was killed and six others were injured in shootings that targeted several bars in the southeastern Mexican tourist region of Cancun.

"Six people were wounded and another was shot dead," the Public Prosecutor's Office said in a brief statement posted on its website and social networks.

Ambulance teams said shooting was recorded in the evening in four bars.

Someone was killed in a bar.

Local media reported that two of the four bars had received threats a few days ago.

The shooting sparked panic among the patrons of these bars, the media added.

The state prosecutor's office in Quintana Roo, where Cancun is, reported that one person had been arrested.

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