This is an urgent call to help us be with him and be by his side at this difficult moment,” Marcos Gamond said in a video posted on Instagram. “My younger brother - who was traveling through Mexico, a few months ago he was working there - has been violently attacked He is hovering between life and death. The Oaxaca Prosecutor’s Office have arrested one person.įollowing the attack, Gamond’s family took to social media to ask for financial help to travel to Mexico.
Two days after the attack, Gamond died in hospital. Last Saturday, he was with a couple of friends when a man armed with a machete attacked him from behind, making several cuts to his head. The young man had been living in Mexico for several months. Benjamin Gamond, from the Argentine city of Córdoba, was killed in Laguna de Chacahua, one of the most important national parks in Oaxaca. Masson’s death is the second instance of violence against foreigners on the Oaxacan coast. So far, the Oaxaca Prosecutor’s Office has not issued any statement about what happened. Municipal police and several officers from the Secretariat of the Navy arrived at the scene a few minutes later, where they found the young man dead inside a car. The shot alerted residents in the area, who notified the authorities. Masson is the second foreigner to be violently murdered in Oaxaca this week: two days earlier, Benjamin Gamond, a 23-year-old Argentine traveler, died after receiving several machete blows.Īccording to local media, the murder took place in the Arroyo Seco neighborhood at around 1 p.m. His body was found inside a car in the coastal town, which is located in the state of Oaxaca. Marica van der Meer (Getty Images)Ī 27-year-old Canadian tourist named Victor Masson died Monday after being shot in the back in the Mexican resort town of Puerto Escondido. Tourists on a beach in Puerto Escondido in the Mexican state of Oaxaca.
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