Cancún tourists rush for shelter as armed gang storms beach at luxury hotel

Two people killed at Hyatt Ziva in Puerto Morelos in what state officials say was confrontation between drug dealers

• Cancun: from tourist beach paradise to hotbed of drug violence

Staff and tourists near the Mexican resort city of Cancun have been sent rushing for shelter after a group of armed men entered the beach outside a luxury hotel and opened fire.

Two men were killed on Thursday in what state officials described as a confrontation between drug dealers at the Hyatt Ziva in Puerto Morelos, just south of Cancun.