Shots were fired in the early hours on the last night of the dance music festival in Playa Del Carmen, with reports coming in just after 3.30am. The BPM Festival has just released an official statement on their Facebook page :
Our thoughts and prayers are with all the victims and their families and all those affected by these tragic events. The BPM Festival Familia Valerie Lee,
Mixmag’s US digital editor, was at
Blue Parrot said the attack happened outside a closing party at the end day of the BPM 10-day electronic musical. Speaking to the Guardian she said:
We arrived closed to 2.30pm. We were there for maybe 20 minutes when we heard four to five shots. Everyone was kind of processing it for a second then people starting running away from the main entrance towards the back. There is a large cement wall so we kind of crouched underneath waiting to see what was happening. People started saying it was just fireworks. But shortly after other people came running through the area and said they had seen someone with a gun. Lee said that after crouching under a metal table behind the wall for up to five more minutes she fled out of the back of the club into the street, where people crying with panic. We later talked to a friend who had been outside when it happened. He said he was a mere 20 ft away from the shooter and he said he saw five bodies on the ground before he was running away. The shooters didn’t seem to enter the club, they just kind of shot towards the front entrance and did not get in. People seem to be saying shooters but I’m not positive (how many there were). - Valerie Lee, Mixmag’s US digital editor The UK Foreign Office said embassy staff in
Mexico were “urgently looking into” the reports. In a statement, it said any Britons caught up in the incident should follow the advice of local authorities. The Foreign Office
issued a telephone number for anyone worried about friends or family members in Mexico.