MEXICO CITY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A man armed with a gun opened fire on Monday at the historic Teotihuac\u00e1n pyramids, leaving one Canadian tourist dead and six people injured at the archaeological site an hour north of Mexico\u2019s capital, authorities said.<\/p>\n
The shooter later died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, according to a statement.<\/p>\n
The local government said four people were wounded by gunshots and two were injured from falls. The victims were taken to hospitals for treatment. They include Colombian, Russian and Canadian tourists, the local government said. The extent of their injuries was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n
Video and photos published by local news organizations show a man standing with a gun on top of one pyramid while people duck for cover. A number of gunshots ring out in the videos.<\/p>\n
A tour guide, who spoke on condition of anonymity so as not to put his job at risk, said he was leading a group down one of the pyramids around 11:30 a.m. when the man began to shoot, and a number of people stumbled in fear and fell down the stairs.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he saw that we were descending he began to shoot downward,\u201d the guide said, adding that the shooter seemed to fire alternatively into the air and then at people\u2019s legs. <\/p>\n
He said he heard between 20 and 30 gunshots ring out before security officials arrived. <\/p>\n
Staff at the archaeological site used to carry out security scans before people entered the area but had stopped doing that.<\/p>\n
The guide showed a video that he took showing a woman limping and her back covered in blood and another man\u2019s arm being bandaged.<\/p>\n
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum wrote on social media that the shooting would be investigated and that she was in touch with the Canadian Embassy.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhat happened today in Teotihuac\u00e1n deeply pains us. I express my most sincere solidarity with the affected individuals and their families,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n
Anita Anand, Canada\u2019s foreign affairs minister, said on X that as a \u201cresult of a horrific act of gun violence, a Canadian was killed and another wounded in Teotihuac\u00e1n\u201d and that her \u201cthoughts are with their family and loved ones.\u201d <\/p>\n
The Teotihuac\u00e1n pyramids are a series of massive structures on the outskirts of Mexico City built by three different ancient civilizations. As one of Mexico\u2019s most important touristdestinations, the site drew more than 1.8 million international visitors last year, according to government figures.<\/p>\n
Security officials found a gun, a knife and ammunition after the shooting.<\/p>\n
S\u00e1nchez and Janetsky write for the Associated Press. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MEXICO CITY\u00a0\u2014\u00a0A man armed with a gun opened fire on Monday at the historic Teotihuac\u00e1n pyramids, leaving one…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[6869,17,6868,6865,6870,6875,6866,6793,6872,3780,6867,6874,6876,6873,6871,784],"class_list":{"0":"post-12537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"tag-archaeological-site","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-canadian-tourist","11":"tag-gun","12":"tag-gunshot","13":"tag-historic-teotihuacan-pyramid","14":"tag-man","15":"tag-mexico-city","16":"tag-number","17":"tag-people","18":"tag-pyramid","19":"tag-security-official","20":"tag-shooter","21":"tag-shooting","22":"tag-tour-guide","23":"tag-video"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}