European Tourists Murdered Near Tulum, Mexico
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 12.16.05 | 12:47 PM ET
Two travelers, Martha Taults of Barcelona, Spain, and Matias Mazzeti of Italy, were hacked to death last week by machete-wielding attackers and left near a road outside of Tulum, according to a Reuters report. Mexican police are looking for clues. They say violent crime is rare in the area, even among the luxury resorts in Cancun, 80 miles up the coast.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
susie 12.17.05 | 4:43 PM ET
I am so shocked to hear about this while looking back of five years living there in tulum.while talking one day to my sons mexican father, he had told me that the crime rate in tulum has gone up there in just a couple years since we lived there.he thought moving back was not a good idea for his son and i.