MEXICO CITY - Gunmen driving jet skis opened hearthplace at a rival drug provider on a seashore withinside the motel metropolis of Cancun, killing a 12-year- antique boy earlier than fleeing, Mexican government stated .
Prosecutors stated in a assertion past due Sunday that the boy suffered gunshot wounds and became taken to a sanatorium wherein he later died.
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The boy became a neighborhood resident who seemingly became mendacity on a living room chair at the seashore together along with his own circle of relatives while he became shot.
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Prosecutors stated the supposed objectives of the gunmen had been opponents engaged in a dispute over drug sales. The boy became seemingly hit with the aid of using stray bullets.
Territorial disputes among drug sellers have fee the lives of numerous travelers withinside the motels alongside Mexico's Caribbean coast in current years.
In 2022, Canadians had been killed in Playa del Carmen, south of Cancun, seemingly due to money owed among worldwide drug and guns trafficking gangs.
In 2021, in addition south in Tulum, travelers — one a California tour blogger born in India and a German national — had been killed after they seemingly had been stuck withinside the crossfire of a gunfight among rival drug sellers .
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