Canadian tourist was shot to death in Mexico’s Pacific coast beach town of Puerto Escondido, marking the second foreign tourist to be killed in the state of Oaxaca this week.The Attorney General’s Office of Oaxaca reported that a Canadian man was found dead in a car with a bullet wound on Monday.
The man’s body was found in the neighbourhood of Arroyo Seco in Puerto Escondido, an area not well-frequented by tourists.The dead man was identified as Víctor Masson, 27, but no information on his hometown was available.Prosecutors wrote that an investigation is underway.
So far, no motive for the slaying has been released.The killing comes three days after a tourist from Argentina died in a machete attack in another coastal town in Oaxaca.On Friday, a man wielding a machete attacked a group of three Argentinian tourists in the hamlet of La Isla, about 100 kilometres west of Puerto Escondido.Benjamin Gamond died of his injuries on Monday at a hospital in Mexico City.
The two other tourists were wounded in the attack but did not suffer life-threatening injuries. A suspect is in custody on suspicion of homicide, prosecutors said.In recent months, a spate of high-profile killings has shone a spotlight on rising violence in Mexico as Canadian and U.S.