Indian travel blogger killed in shootout between rival gangs in Mexico

A 25-year-old California-based Indian-origin woman, who travelled to Mexico to celebrate her birthday, was killed on Wednesday, October 20, in a shootout between two drug-peddling gangs at a restaurant in Mexico’s Tulum, according to media reports.

The woman Anjali Ryot lived in San Jose, California, US. She was killed along with a German tourist, Jennifer Henzold, in the crossfire, Californianewstimes.com reported.

Anjali, a travel blogger, had arrived in Tulum on Monday before her birthday on October 22. Her Instagram account describes her as a travel blogger from Himachal Pradesh, India, living in San Jose. Anjali had been working as a senior site reliability engineer with LinkedIn since July. She was previously employed by Yahoo.