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Five dead in shooting at Mexico music festival: mayor

Published January 16, 2017 Updated January 16, 2017 01:29pm

CANCN: A shooting erupted at an electronic music festival in the Mexican resort of Playa del Carmen early Monday, leaving at least five people dead and sparking a stampede, the mayor said.

Fifteen people were injured, some in the stampede, after at least one shooter opened fire before dawn at the Blue Parrot nightclub during the BPM festival, Mayor Cristina Torres told Turquesa radio.

Copyright AFP (Agence France-Press), 2017