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It was a chaotic scene inside Cancun International Airport following reports of gunshots on March 28. In a video posted by Twitter user No9fine, travelers are seen running and appearing to take cover. “Get down, get down,” you hear a woman telling the person filming the video as she cries in search of her cousin.
“We’re good now. We were checking in for our flight and I guess it was an active shooter on the airport grounds,” said Twitter user, No9fine. “Everybody started running over each other and ducking and dropping their suitcases.”
Another traveler by the name of thetarafeed , tweeted about a huge stampede in the airport’s Terminal 3.
Some travelers reportedly ran onto planes to escape the possible active shooter.
Following the frightening incident, traveler No9fine took to Twitter with a follow-up. According to the Twitter user, there may have been multiple explosions that prompted the disarray.
Police, who initially responded to the reports of gunfire, say there was no evidence of gunshots or an explosion.“All authorities […] are working to find the causes of the multiple versions around the Cancun Airport,” Lucio Hernandez Gutierrez, the police chief of Quintana Roo, stated on Twitter. He adds that there were “no signs of detonations or explosions of any kind.”
The Mexican National Guard believes the sounds travelers heard may have been caused by someone accidentally knocking three signs to the ground. Increased Violence Around TouristsIt’s not shocking that anxiety would be high while traveling to the tourist hot spot. This incident comes just months after gunmen on jet skis began shooting at a Cancun beach – causing individuals to run for their lives and take cover. “There were two guys and maybe even a third, who came in on jet skis, and what I saw was them shooting up into the sky. I did not see any shots coming in toward the shoreline,” recalled tourist Rick Lebassa. RELATED: Tourists Run For Cover As Gunmen On Jet Skis Shoot At Cancun Beach Prior to the jetski incident, two tourists were killed during what authorities call a gang-related shootout in Tulum in October 2021. Anjali Ryot, a travel blogger from San Jose, California, and Jennifer Henzold of Germany died as a result of being shot. Three other tourists were also injured in the shootout. Taste of Soul: West AfricaTravel Noire, Cooking with Mai, African Food, Cooking, Entrepreneurship, Chef Mai, West African food Published December 9, 2021 Updated 9:10PM CANCUN, Mexico - Gunfire broke out on a beach in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Cancun Tuesday, sending tourists scrambling for cover, but authorities said nobody appeared to be injured. Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez, the chief of police of the coastal state of Quintana Roo, said the attackers apparently pulled up to the beach on jet skis and opened fire at a beach in Cancun’s hotel zone. Hernández Gutiérrez said the jet skis had been found and seized. One witness to the attack, Rick Lebassa, a tourist from Maine, said two or three gunmen appeared to be shooting into the air with pistols, not at the beach. "There were two guys and maybe even a third, who came in on jet skis, and what I saw was them shooting up into the sky," Lebassa said. "I did not see any shots coming in toward the shoreline." Lebassa says this was the first incident of this kind he’s seen in his 31 years of coming to Cancun.  FILE - Members of the National Guard patrol a beach in the Hotel Zone of Cancun, Quintana Roo state, Mexico, on Thursday, Dec. 2, 2021. "I’m not overly concerned because this is the first time ever," Lebassa said. "We’ve been coming down for 31 years and we’ve never had any issues." Not everyone was as unflappable as Lebassa, though. Andy Guyrich and Kerry Arms, who were visiting from Minnesota, described more gunshots and terror on the beach. "We just had to hit the deck," Guyrich said. Arms initially thought it was some kind of show. RELATED: California travel blogger among 2 killed in Mexico’s Tulum "There was a delayed reaction for about maybe five seconds, then everybody started scrambling and screaming and crying, and running," Arms recounted. The shooting is the latest in a string of violent incidents on the resort-studded coast, and came in the same week that a special battalion of National Guard troops were assigned to protect the area. Mexican marines with bulletproof vests, helmets and assault rifles were seen patrolling Cancun’s tourist-crowded beaches following the Tuesday shooting. On Nov. 5, a commando of drug gang gunmen stormed a beach at Puerto Morelos, a resort just south of Cancun, and opened fire in front of luxury hotels, executing two drug dealers from a rival gang. The dramatic shooting attack sent tourists scrambling for cover. State authorities called it "a clash between rival groups of drug dealers on a beach" near two hotels. Several cartels are fighting for the area’s lucrative retail drug trade, including the Jalisco cartel and the a gang allied with the Gulf cartel. The shootings were the latest chapter in drug gang violence that has sullied the reputation of Mexico’s Caribbean coast as a once-tranquil oasis. RELATED: Cancun shooting: 2 killed in apparent drug ‘execution’ on beach, vacationers flee Rival cartels often kill another gang’s street-level dealers in Mexico to eliminate competition and ensure their drugs are sold first. It is not the first time that tourists have been caught in the crossfire of such battles. The Puerto Morelos shooting came two weeks after a California travel blogger and a German tourist were killed in a similar shootout in the beach town of Tulum in October. A San Jose, California woman born in India, Anjali Ryot, and German citizen Jennifer Henzold were apparently hit by crossfire from the Oct. 20 drug dealers’ shootout in Tulum, south of Puerto Morelos. Three other foreign tourists were wounded in the shooting at a street-side eatery that has some outdoor tables, right off Tulum’s main strip. They included two German men and a Dutch woman. The Tulum gunfight also apparently broke out between two groups that operate street-level drug sales in the area, according to prosecutors. There have been signs that the situation in Quintana Roo state, where all the resorts are located, was out of control months ago. In June, two men were shot to death on the beach in Tulum and a third was wounded. And in nearby Playa del Carmen, police stage a massive raid in October on the beach town’s restaurant-lined Quinta Avenida, detaining 26 suspects — most apparently for drug sales — after a city policewoman was shot to death and locked in the trunk of a car last week. Prosecutors said Friday they have arrested a suspect in that killing. The administration of President Andrés Manuel López Obrador has pinned its hopes on the so-called Maya Riviera, where it has announced plans to build an international airport and a stop for the Maya train, which will run in a loop around the Yucatan peninsula. |
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