The US State Department has warned Americans to train “increased caution” within the Mexican state of Oaxaca after two tourists were killed in separate assaults.

Canadian Víctor Masson, 27, was shot and killed in a preferred seashore city simply days after a vacationer from Argentina was hacked to dying in a machete assault in the identical Pacific coast resort space. Prosecutors say Masson was discovered lifeless in a automotive with a bullet wound within the city of Puerto Escondido, a seashore city well-liked with surfers.

No particulars have been revealed concerning the precise circumstances of the person’s dying, however he was killed three days after a vacationer from Argentina was murdered in a machete assault within the hamlet of La Isla.

Oaxaca is usually thought-about one of many safer states in Mexico, however the assaults have prompted the State Department to subject a travel advisory urging Americans to train “elevated warning when touring" to the area.

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Fox News experiences that the Argentine sufferer has been recognized as Benjamin Gamond, a member of the Tala Rugby Club based in Cordoba, Argentina. Mexican police say he was one of three tourists from Argentina attacked by a man wielding a machete and that he died in hospital.

His two travel companions suffered non-life-threatening injuries in the attack that saw local residents subdue his attacker and turn him over to police.

Mexico has seen a number of attacks on tourists in recent months. In April, a Mexican tourist was shot dead in the Caribbean coastal resort of Tulum during a robbery at chain coffee shop.

A month previously, an American tourist was shot in the leg by unknown assailants in the town of Puerto Morelos outside of Cancun during spring break.

And in an incident connected to drug cartel violence in April, armed men stormed the resort of Cortazar, 40 miles south of Guanajuato, and shot dead seven people including a seven-year-old child. According to authorities in Cortazar, the victims included three men and three women in addition to the child. Another person suffered serious injuries.