2 CANADIANS KILLED,AND ANOTHER INJURED IN MEXICO RESORT SHOOTOUT, POLICE SAY

Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: 

Two Canadians were killed Friday and another was wounded in a shooting at a hotel along Mexico's Caribbean coast, state authorities said.



Quintana Roo state security chief Lucio Hernandez said via Twitter that authorities were searching for a Hotel Xcaret guest in the shooting. He shared a photo of a man walking with a handgun.



Authorities said all three victims were taken to a hospital, but two died.

The Xcaret resort is south of Playa del Carmen.



The suspect in the shooting was also apparently a guest and that Canadian police had informed them he was a known felon with a long record related to robbery, drug and weapons offences. The office said both of the slain victims also had criminal records.