Two Canadians – one of whom was wanted by Interpol – were found dead from knife wounds in the Caribbean coast of the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen, the state prosecutor’s office said on Tuesday.
Prosecutors in Quintana Roo, which also has resort towns, including Cancun and Tulum, said the man and woman were found dead Monday at a hotel or condominium in the troubled resort, and a third was injured.
There was no immediate information about their names or hometowns. “Canada’s global affairs are aware of the deaths of two Canadians in Mexico,” the ministry said in a statement.
Playa del Carmen has been affected by several cases of foreign violence, most recently in January, when two Canadians were killed at a local resort, apparently over debts between international drug and arms gangs.
In March, police in Playa del Carmen found the bodies of four men dumped near a housing estate. The fact that the bodies were left together in the bushes to the access road suggests a gangster-style murder.
There were a series of brazen acts of violence elsewhere along Mexico’s Riviera coast, the resort’s jewel of the country’s tourism industry.
In November, a shootout on the beach of Puerto Morelos, north of Playa del Carmen, killed two suspected drug dealers. Authorities said 15 armed men were from a gang that was apparently challenging control of drug sales there.
In late October, further south in the tranquil destination of Tulum, two tourists – one an Indian-born travel blogger in California and the other a German – were caught in the apparent crossfire of rival drug dealers and killed.
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