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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 20 Apr 202620 Apr 2026<\/p>\n
A gunman has fatally shot \u2060a Canadian woman and injured six \u2060others at Mexico\u2019s Teotihuacan pyramids, a \u200cpopular tourist and archaeological site outside of Mexico City, authorities say.<\/p>\n
The perpetrator later died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Monday, local officials said.\u00a0The State of Mexico said four of the injured \u2060victims were shot and two others suffered from falls.<\/p>\n
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\u201cCare is being provided to the people who were affected, and the presence of elements from the state Secretariat of Security will be maintained,\u201d Governor Delfina Gomez Alvarez wrote on X.<\/p>\n
Mexico\u2019s President Claudia Sheinbaum said she is closely monitoring the situation, and her government is in contact with the Canadian embassy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have instructed the Security Cabinet to thoroughly investigate these events and provide all necessary support,\u201d Sheinbaum wrote on X.<\/p>\n
\u201cPersonnel from the Secretariat of the Interior and Culture are already heading to the site to provide assistance and accompaniment, along with local authorities.\u201d<\/p>\n
The pre-Hispanic \u2060city was one \u2060of the most important cultural centres in Mesoamerica.<\/p>\n
The incident comes less than two months from the start of the FIFA World Cup, which Mexico will co-host with the United States and Canada.<\/p>\n
Concerns over the security situation<\/a> in Mexico came to the forefront in February after violence erupted across parts of the country, following the killing of Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, also known as \u201cEl Mencho\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Claudia Sheinbaum says she instructed authorities to \u2018thoroughly investigate\u2019 incident outside Mexico City. Published On 20 Apr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":617386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,2169,799,1072,44,1674,1690],"class_list":{"0":"post-617385","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-crime","11":"tag-latin-america","12":"tag-mexico","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-tourism","15":"tag-us-canada"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}