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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
2021-12-09
[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
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Posted by:Skidmark

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

#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  

#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  

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

#7  ^Coolo
Posted by: Rex Mundi   2021-12-09 13:16  

#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  

#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  

#4  See Cancun
Posted by: Skidmark   2021-12-09 11:27  

#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  

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

#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  

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