FIVE SHOT DEAD AT FESTIVAL IN MEXICO
CANCUN // Five people were killed in a shooting attack at an electronic music festival in Mexico’s Caribbean coast resort of Playa del Carmen. The attorney general of Quintana Roo state said that several of the dead appeared to have been among security staff at the 10-day BPM electronic music festival. Miguel Pech said the shooting occurred at 2.30am at the Blue Parrot nightclub, one of the BPM festival’s venues in Playa del Carmen, near Cancun. Mr Pech said a gunman apparently entered the club and began to exchange fire with another person.