On Tuesday night, two women embraced and cried while looking at a pool of blood and a flickering candle just inside the gate of the state prosecutors' office. The governor pleaded for calm, saying the federal government was sending more security forces to help local and state authorities. Later, an official with the prosecutor's office said the mall scare proved to be a false alarm. Authorities released few details about the attack on the prosecutors' office, including the number of attackers or information on those detained. Franco said the family frantically searched all over Cancun looking for his brother-in-law before learning he was inside the prosecutors' office being questioned.

Source: Fox News January 18, 2017 05:21 UTC