Assistant Public Safety Secretary Luis Rodríguez Bucio said Tuesday that the city inspectors went to the bar, whose name means "The Cave", to inspect for compliance with city codes.
10 employees at a Mexican resort have been charged in the stabbing of four city inspectors on Feb. 11. (Fox News)
Bar employees allegedly stabbed the inspectors to death, stuffed their bodies in a car and left it elsewhere. The employees were caught mopping up the blood off the floor of the bar when police arrived.
Playa del Carmen has long had a problem with illicit businesses, drug sales at shops and beach front restaurants taking over the beach zone.
In 2017, a shooting attack at an electronic music festival in another bar in Playa del Carmen left five people dead, including two Canadians, an Italian and a Colombian.
In 2019, 7 men killed in a shooting attack at another bar in Playa del Carmen.