Los Angeles: A 25-year-old California-based Indian-origin woman techie, who travelled to Mexico to celebrate her birthday, was one of the two foreign tourists killed in a shootout between two drug gangs in the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum, according to media reports.
The incident happened on Wednesday (October 20) night. Anjali Ryot was killed along with another German tourist in the crossfire. Ryot arrived in Tulum on Monday (October 18) prior to her birthday on October 22, it said.
Her Instagram account listed her as a travel blogger from Himachal Pradesh, living in San Jose, California. Ryot has been working as a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on LinkedIn since July. She was previously employed by Yahoo, the Californianewstimes.Com report said.
On Wednesday (October 20) night, Ryot and four other foreign tourists were dining on the terrace of La Malquerida restaurant when four men armed with assault rifles fired at an adjoining table in the premises around 10:30 pm, the Spanish newspaper El Pais reported.
The stray bullets hit the foreigners. Ryot and the German woman were killed, while the three others — from Germany and the Netherlands — were wounded. Authorities point to a confrontation between rival organised crime gangs. Ryot and her friends were just the collateral victims, it said.
