Five people have been shot dead and five more wounded in Canc\u00fan after gunmen burst into a bar in the Mexican resort city and opened fire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Quintana Roo state prosecutors said the attack on Saturday took place in a club called La Kuka, on a main avenue in central Canc\u00fan about 6km (4 miles) away from the Caribbean resort city\u2019s seaside tourist hotel zone, situated on the Yucat\u00e1n Peninsula.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prosecutors said four men carrying a long gun and three handguns entered and began shooting. Two of the injured were in critical condition.Canc\u00fan: from tourist beach paradise to hotbed of Mexico’s drug violence<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n Violence has been rising in Canc\u00fan and the state of Quintana Roo as a whole amid reports of the Jalisco New Generation cartel moving into the area and fighting local gangs for control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Last month federal authorities reported that 774 people had been killed in the state last year, more than double the 359 killings recorded in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Also in January, gunmen shot and killed seven people at a house in Canc\u00fan, an incident that authorities attributed to a dispute between street-level drug dealers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n State police said at the time that a suspected gang leader linked to the Jalisco gang was believed to be behind the attack.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Five people have been shot dead and five more wounded in Canc\u00fan after gunmen burst into a bar in the Mexican resort city and opened fire. Quintana Roo state prosecutors said the attack on Saturday took place in a club called La Kuka, on a main avenue in central Canc\u00fan about 6km (4 miles) away from the Caribbean resort city\u2019s… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":125,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/125"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3157,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3156\/revisions\/3157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}