Two Canadians killed in Playa del Carmen: one wanted by Interpol

Two Canadians, one of them sought by Interpol, have been found dead of knife wounds in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Playa del Carmen.

Prosecutors in Quintana Roo state, said the man and the woman were found dead Monday at a condominium in the resort town, and a security guard was reported injured.

Global Affairs Canada has not released the identity of the victims.

TVA Nouvelles is reporting the couple was from Quebec.

Prosecutors confirmed the male victim was on an Interpol wanted list for fraud charges.

Playa del Carmen has been hit by several instances of violence involving foreigners, most recently in January, when two Canadians were killed at a local resort, apparently because of debts between international drug and weapons trafficking gangs.

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In March, police in Playa del Carmen found the bodies of four men dumped near a housing development. The fact the bodies were left together in the shrubs beside an access road suggested a gangland-style killing.

There have been a series of brazen acts of violence elsewhere along Mexico’s resort-studded Mayan Riviera coast, the crown jewel of the country’s tourism industry.

Global Affairs Canada updated its travel advisories for Mexico hours after the murders.

The alerts advise Canadians to “exercise a high degree of caution” and avoid non-essential travel in more than a dozen regions “due to high levels of violence and organized crime.”