Tulum Beach Club Shoot-Out Claims Lives of American Woman and Belizean Man

An American woman, identified as Niko Honarbakhsh, was killed by a stray bullet during a shootout between rival drug dealers at a beach club in Tulum, Mexico. The woman had no connection to the suspected drug dealer also killed in the violence. Tulum has seen previous incidents of tourists being caught in drug-related shootouts, prompting the US State Department to issue a travel alert for increased situational awareness in the area.