The incident immediately sparked fear and confusion, with some guests sending news and video from their hotel while it was still unclear what was happening. Mr Peterbrink and his husband were hustled into their room with seven other guests and a staff member from Vacaya, an LGBT travel agency that organised the trip, where they locked the doors and hid behind furniture. “It was chaos as people ran from the pool and beach.

“We had literally just arrived and were walking to the beach when a rain of gunfire happened, and people all started running from the beach and pool area to take cover,” travel writer Troy Petenbrink told the Metro Weekly. Officials said no tourists had been kidnapped. The hotel had been hosting a week-long ‘Day of the Dead’ celebration for LGBT travellers when a group of armed criminals, described by Mexican media as “commandos”, arrived by boat and triggered a “rain of gunfire”.Ī report from a Mexican government command centre suggested that about 15 armed people were involved, while one person may have been have been kidnapped and taken away in a boat. Mexican officials said no tourists had been seriously harmed in the attack at the Hyatt Ziva Riviera resort in Bahía Petempich, Mexico, which left two alleged gangsters dead and one guest mildly injured. Guests at a five-star Cancun resort were sent scrambling for shelter on Thursday when rival groups of alleged drug dealers engaged in a gun battle on the beach.

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