2 Suspects Arrested In Mexico Beach Shooting That Left 2 Dead

The armed clash, which took place Thursday, was the second to shake Mexico's Riviera Maya in recent weeks, following the death of two tourists from Germany and India in a shootout last month.

Mexican authorities on Saturday arrested two people suspected of involvement in a shooting between rival gangs on a beach near the Caribbean resort destination of Cancun that left two people dead.

The armed clash, which took place Thursday, was the second to shake Mexico's Riviera Maya in recent weeks and is another blow to a tourism industry still recovering from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic.

The attorney general's office for the eastern state of Quintana Roo said it had managed to locate three of the four vehicles the suspected shooters used to travel to the beach. They arrested two people who had been driving, while one managed to escape.

"Two drivers were captured while a third one fled, and there was even an exchange of gunfire with police officers, managing to escape to a jungle area," the attorney general said in a statement.