The blast killed two at a Mexican resort where a British businessman was shot dead

An explosion at Kool Beach in Playa del Carmen, a popular tourist destination in Cancun, Mexico, has killed two people and injured more than 20. Four foreigners were also injured

Two people died and more than 20 were injured in an explosion at a restaurant on the coast Mexican a resort where a British businessman was shot dead on Saturday.

An explosion at Kool Beach in the southern city of Playa del Carmen, in which two workers were killed, killed four foreigners who were injured, Mexican authorities said.

The explosion was caused by a kitchen gas leak that caused the explosion.

Mayor Lili Campos said two workers had been killed but could not be removed because of the danger of the building collapsing.

The blast injured 21 people and took them to public and private hospitals in the popular tourist resort.

A quote from the Quintana Roo Regional Prosecutor’s Office states: “ Two people who lost their lives in an explosion at a restaurant in Solidarid have been identified.

“Both are men and were restaurant workers. 18 people were taken to hospital and eight are now allowed to leave.

“According to previous reports, the cause of the explosion was a gas leak.”

The identities of the injured, including four foreigners, have not been disclosed by authorities so far.

Footage released by local media shows police carrying bloodied survivors on stretchers after holidaymakers on a nearby beach feared a bomb had exploded.

A spokesman for the regional prosecutor’s office said: “We have launched an investigation into the explosion caused by a gas leak in the restaurant’s kitchen in the beach area of ​​Solidaridad municipality.”

The incident happened Monday around 1:30 p.m. local time, less than 48 hours after British businessman Chris Cleave was shot in an assassination-style assassination near his nearby home in front of his 14-year-old daughter.

Two men on a motorcycle shot him from close range after they drove past his red Audi while he was in traffic.

A real estate agent originally from Truro, Cornwall, was threatened with a drug cartel before his murder.

There was violence in the resort The Argentine bar manager was shot twice in the head and two Canadians were killed in a January shooting.