Italian businessman murdered in southern Mexico

Raphael Tunesi was shot outside a school in the Palenque municipality of the southern state of Chiapas as he was on his way to pick up his children, local media reported.

The Chiapas State Attorney General’s Office said in a statement that members of the police went to that municipality, where they located a BMW brand vehicle with various impacts from firearm projectiles. The body of the businessman was found inside the car.

Tunesi was the owner of the Quinta Chanabnal boutique hotel, an epigrapher, and an expert on Mayan culture.

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