LOS ANGELES: A 25-year-old Indian woman based in California, Techie, who traveled to Mexico to celebrate her birthday, was one of two foreign tourists who were killed in a shootout between two drug gangs on the Caribbean Coast, Tulum Beach , According to media reports.
The incident occurred on Wednesday night.
Anjali Ryot was killed with other German tourists in Crossfire, Californianewstimes.com News Portal reported.
Ryot arrived in Tulum on Monday before his birthday on October 22, he said.
The Instagram account enrolled it as a blogger travel from Himachal Pradesh, living in San Jose, California.
Ryot has worked as a senior site reliability engineer on LinkedIn since July.
He was previously employed by Yahoo, said the Californianewstimes report.
On Wednesday night, Ryot and other four foreign tourists were relaxing on the terrace of La Malquerida restaurant when four men armed with the assault rifle fired to a table side by side at around 10:30 a.m., Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.
Stray bullets hit strangers.
Ryot and German woman were killed, while three others – from Germany and the Netherlands – injured.
The authority pointed to the confrontation between rival organized crime gangs.
Ryot and his friends are only victims of collateral, he said.
The battle between two rival groups that operated drug sales in the area, said the Kuintana State Prosecutor’s Office Roo in a statement.
Some drug cartels operate in Mexico countries, known as the profitable retail drug market and as a landing place for drug delivery, the Associated Press reported from Mexico City.
Meanwhile, Ryot Ashish Ryot’s brothers have asked the Mayor of Tulum to accelerate the procedure to be able to remove his body, the El Pais report said.
Ashish urged the authorities to ask for help so his visa was approved and he could enter Mexico to take his sister’s body back to India for his last ritual.