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A Canadian woman has been killed and several other people injured after a person opened fire at a preferred historical site in Mexico.
The shooting occurred at the highest of considered one of the traditional Teotihuacán pyramids, 30 miles northeast of Mexico City, yesterday at 11.30am.
The gunman, identified by authorities as Mexican national Julio César Jasso Ramírez, then shot and killed himself.
Two people were found dead, ‘considered one of whom was likely the shooter,’ the local security ministry of Mexico State said.
Of the 13 injured, seven suffered gunshots, including two children aged six and 13 from Colombia and Brazil, a 37-year-old Colombian woman, a 29-year-old Canadian woman, a 32-year-old Russian man, a 29-year-old American man and a 61-year-old American woman.
The opposite injured included 4 more US residents, a 55-year-old Brazilian woman and a 22-year-old Colombian woman.
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Their injuries were described as falls or abrasions in a casualty report released by the authorities.
Eight remain in hospital on the time of writing.
The suspect was a person aged between 25 and 30 who climbed to the primary level of the Pyramid of the Moon, the second largest in Teotihuacán, before opening fire.
Video posted to social media shows tourists ducking at the underside because the sound of gunfire rings.
A lady may be heard screaming, ‘Call the police!’, as a person may be seen on the structure with a bunch of individuals lying down nearby.
A witness told the local news outlet NMás that she heard 20 shots and saw a tourist being shot.
Tourist Laura Torres said: ‘She was lying about halfway up the pyramid. This shouldn’t have happened.
Several people were held hostage through the ordeal.
Torres said: ‘After a short while, I saw him let one person down, a woman, he let her down, for a moment I assumed he was going to shoot her within the back, but no, thank God he let her go.’
Prosecutors in Mexico State said Ramírez acted alone. A firearm, a knife, and multiple rounds of ammunition were recovered on the scene.
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said on social media that an investigation into the incident has been launched.
She added: ‘What happened today in Teotihuacán pains us deeply.’
The shooting comes as the federal government is preparing an immersive night show for the positioning as a part of the upcoming World Cup in Mexico City.
Teotihuacán, a city of pyramids and palaces that predates the Aztecs, was Mexico’s second-most-popular archaeological site last yr, with 1.8 million visitors.
A Canadian travel advisory says residents must ‘exercise a high degree of caution’ while in Mexico.
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