A shootout between rival drug gangs at a ritzy Cancun resort left four Americans hurt, according to reports.
Rival drug gangs engaged in the Thursday gunfight on the beach outside Azul Beach Resort and the Hyatt Ziva Riviera in Puerto Morales, about 40 minutes by car from Cancun.
The gunfire sent LGBT tourists, at the Hyatt for a weeklong gay “Day of the Dead” celebration, diving for cover and barricading themselves in their hotel rooms, The Independent reported.
Two men, presumed to be drug dealers, died in the attack — one on the beach and the other inside one of the hotels, according to ABC News.
The assailants arrived by boat and wore ski masks, officials said.
“About 15 people arrived on the beach to assassinate two men who had showed up saying they were the new dealers in the area,” Oscar Montes de Oca, attorney general for the state of Quintana Roo, told Radio Formula.
One Hyatt guest was hit with a stray bullet, Mike Sington, a former senior executive at NBCUniversal staying at the resort, tweeted Thursday.
The injured guest has been released from the hospital, Sington said, and returned to the resort, where normal operations have resumed.
Three other Americans sustained minor injuries and did not require hospitalization, a US official confirmed to ABC News.
