A gunman opened fire on tourists gathered to go to Mexico’s Teotihuacan pyramid.
He shot a Canadian woman dead and injured several others before killing himself, police said.
At the least six people were injured, 4 by gunfire and two by falling, the State of Mexico said.
Mexico’s security cabinet said the injured people were receiving medical care.
They announced they’ve seized a firearm, a bladed weapon and live ammunition from the historic site.
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Videos on social media shows terrified tourists fleeing the world as gunfire rings out.
The suspected gunman, in a plaid shirt, is seen at the highest of the pyramid brandishing a knife.
American Tim Chung was on the Teotihuacán pyramids with a tour group when the incident occurred.
‘Hastily I see a man fall off one in all the viewing platforms after which I heard a shot and one other person fall off after which I knew something bad was happening and heard screams,’ Chung told NBC News.
He said everyone in his tour group is secure but described the event as ‘unbelievably sad.’
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Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says authorities from federal, state and native agencies are responding to the matter.
‘What happened today in Teotihuacán deeply hurts us. I express my most sincere solidarity with the people affected and their families. We’re involved with the Canadian embassy,’ she said.
The pre-Hispanic city was one of the crucial necessary cultural centres in Mesoamerica.
At its peak, Teotihuacán was one in all the biggest cities on the planet with population of around 200,000.
Its name comes from the later Aztecs and roughly means ‘the place where gods were created.’ By the point the Aztecs discovered it, the town had already been abandoned for hundreds of years.
Its sudden collapse remains to be one in all the most important unsolved mysteries of ancient history.
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