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PLAYA DE CARMEN, Mexico — A powerful explosion likely caused by an accumulation of swamp gas killed seven people, including five Canadian tourists, Sunday at a large resort hotel on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, authorities said.
Two Mexican employees of the 676-room Grand Riviera Princess in Playa del Carmen, south of Cancún, were killed in the blast, said Francisco Alor, attorney general of Quintana Roo state.
Two other Canadians suffered severe injuries, while 10 others, including two U.S. citizens and eight Mexican employees of the hotel, suffered less serious wounds.
Alor and other officials said the initial investigations suggest the gas that exploded beneath the building was apparently a mix of gases from a nearby swamp.
