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2021-12-09 Caribbean-Latin America
Cancun vacationers flee beach as six-man armed gang dressed as SOLDIERS pull up on three jet skis and open fire in vicious cartel battle over tourist drug trade
[Daily Mail, Where America Gets Its News]
  • Five attackers on jet skis began shooting at a beach in Cancun's hotel zone Tuesday, police said

  • Tourists were sent running for cover during the shooting, which saw gunmen reportedly firing about 20 shots near family-friendly four-star Oasis Palm resort

  • The gunmen arrived at beach wearing military uniforms and riding jet skis, which they abandoned a mile away after firing shots into the air

  • Attack comes a week after Mexico deployed 1,500 National Guardsman to protect resort area

  • Cancun and surrounding resort town have been plagued by violence unleashed by feuding drug gangs

  • US Department of State issued advisory, urging Americans to 'exercise extreme caution' when traveling to Quintana Roo state due to COVID-19 and crime
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11142 views ]  Top
 File under: Narcos 

#1 Cancun vacationers? Must be the holiday crowd who sighed up too late for the Chernobyl reactor tour. I wish them well.
Posted by Besoeker 2021-12-09 00:40||   2021-12-09 00:40|| Front Page Top

#2 Jeez! You're a funny dude.
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-09 00:58||   2021-12-09 00:58|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm surprised that the Mexican government can't or won't stop this. Tourism has to be a substantial source of revenue for the country, especially in a place like Cancun.
Posted by Tom 2021-12-09 11:24||   2021-12-09 11:24|| Front Page Top

#4 See Cancun
Posted by Skidmark 2021-12-09 11:27||   2021-12-09 11:27|| Front Page Top

#5 I still hear people talk as if a vacation in Cancun is safe but I wouldn't go. Seal that country off and check back in a hundred years or so.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2021-12-09 12:09||   2021-12-09 12:09|| Front Page Top

#6 Can you rent an AK-47 when you rent your jetski in Cancun?
Como se dice kewl!?
Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-12-09 12:43||   2021-12-09 12:43|| Front Page Top

#7 ^Coolo
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-12-09 13:16||   2021-12-09 13:16|| Front Page Top

#8 ...though, I could be wrong
Posted by Rex Mundi 2021-12-09 13:17||   2021-12-09 13:17|| Front Page Top

#9 Gunmen on jet skis! Have we seen this movie? It reads like an Andy Sidaris film.
Posted by SteveS 2021-12-09 16:50||   2021-12-09 16:50|| Front Page Top

#10 In Mexico, you ask for a cuerna de chivo. Goat's horn. Called that for the curved magazine.
Posted by M. Murcek 2021-12-09 18:40||   2021-12-09 18:40|| Front Page Top

#11 Great animal lovers down there. Los Tucanes
Posted by Unavimp Chusogum4170 2021-12-09 23:03||   2021-12-09 23:03|| Front Page Top

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