ASSAULTS SHOT A BRITISH COUPLE IN QUINTANA ROO, ONE OF THEM DIED

ARMED GROUP ATTACKS BRITISH COUPLE IN QUINTANA ROO; HE IS KILLED AND SHE IS SERIOUSLY INJURED

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The event occurred in the jungle area of the municipality of Lázaro Cárdenas, west of Playa del Carmen and south of Cancun.

After robbing a British couple they were shot, on June 9, a British couple was the victim of an armed attack in the jungle area of Lázaro Cárdenas, Quintana Roo; the man died and the woman was seriously injured.

The victims, who were in a house known as La Esperanza ranch, were identified as Martin Artur Schmidt and Sophie Wiggins.

Ranch workers fled after the arrival of the armed group, and when they returned they found the lifeless man and the woman with gunshot wounds.

As it is an area with difficult access, the Quintana Roo Police had to transfer her by helicopter to the General Hospital of Playa del Carmen.

This Monday the 12th, Óscar Montes de Oca, state attorney general, mentioned that the motive for the attack was robbery.

"Unfortunately, in the face of resistance from abroad, these subjects fired a 9-millimeter caliber firearm against them," the official reported.

So far, no people have been reported arrested for these events.

Staff from the British Consulate in Mexico have been monitoring the situation, and this Monday they were at the hospital where Sophie Wiggins is hospitalized, waiting to repatriate the woman and take away the body of the deceased.