Cancun vacationers run for their lives as armed gang on jet skis hit beach and open fire

Tourists were sent scrambling for cover after gunmen arrived on jet skis at a beach in Mexico's Caribbean coast resort in Cancun and opened fire.

The attackers pulled up to the beach on jet skis and began shooting at a beach in Cancun's hotel zone on Tuesday, Lucio Hernández Gutiérrez, the chief of police of the coastal state of Quintana Roo, said.

Three jet skis have been found and seized, and nobody appeared to be injured in the attack, police said.

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.

'It is too little, too late,' said Robert Almonte, an expert on international criminal organizations, in a phone interview with DailyMail.com.

On November 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.



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