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Mexico: American Woman Killed in Crossfire During Drug Dispute at Tulum Beach Club

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A woman from Los Angeles was killed in a crossfire in Mexico in a drug dispute at a beach resort in Tulum.

Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo said the American woman killed in the gunfire, 44-year-old Niko Honarbakhsh, had no connection whatsoever to the drug dealers. She was living in Cancun, ABC News reported.

A man from Belize was also killed in the crossfire.

ABC News reported:

An American woman originally from Los Angeles and a man from Belize were killed in what appears to have been a dispute between drug dealers at a beach club in the Mexican resort city of Tulum, officials confirmed Sunday.

Prosecutors in the Caribbean coast state of Quintana Roo stressed the American woman had no connection to an alleged drug dealer also killed in the shooting Friday night.

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