They are shot and robbed on the highway
RR | Cancun | August 25, 2024
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RELATED TOPICS: Murder, Cancun, Insecurity, Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Sonora, Sedena, Violence
A family of tourists from Arizona were traveling in a Nissan pickup truck on the Sonora Highway and at kilometer 220 of the highway that connects Sonoyta with Caborca, they were attacked with bullets, leaving two women dead.
Apparently, the robbers wanted to stop the truck, but the driver continued, to which the criminals responded by shooting at the truck, which caused it to lose control and overturn, leaving two fatalities, Enedina ‘N’ and Hubandina ‘N’, aged 72 and 64.
One of the occupants survived the attack and told authorities that the robbers stole her belongings after the truck overturned and fled.
State authorities, the National Defense Secretariat (Sedena) and forensic personnel, went to the scene, but received information about another shooting in San Luis RÃo Colorado, on the border between Sonora and Baja California, where they arrested the three alleged criminals who were transferred to the Federal Public Prosecutor’s Office in Sonora.
As reported by REPORTUR.mxtourism service providers in the southern state of Chiapas also complain that they have seen a drastic decrease in the number of tourists arriving, due to the constant roadblocks, extortion by criminal groups and intimidation on stretches of road to towns in the mountains, border and jungle of this state. (Chiapas: extortion and violence sink the arrival of tourists).
According to the testimony of one of them with four decades in the sector, due to the situation of violence and insecurity currently experienced in these areas, they have been forced to go through Tabasco and Guatemala to reach some places in the Chiapas territory, and in other cases divert tourists to destinations in Guatemala or the states of Yucatan and Quintana Roo.