Security officers kept ambulances from entering resort after deadly blast
Posted Jan 25, 2011 06:27:58 AM.
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It appears security officers actually kept ambulances from entering a Mexican resort following a deadly explosion last November. The blast that ripped through a lobby of the Grand Riviera Princess hotel in Playa del Carmen killed five Canadians and two Mexican workers.
C-B-C reported eight emergency calls made after the blast reveal that hotel security barred ambulances and police from entering the resort complex.
Twenty-one minutes after the first emergency call, ambulances finally made it past the guards and the resort’s front gate.
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