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A British man has been found dead in a pool of blood in his hotel room in the Mexican resort of Cancun and his wife beside him with cuts to her arms.
Detectives raced to the scene after the alarm was raised at a city hotel just after 5am local time this morning. Initial unconfirmed reports pointed to a possible crime of passion.
Local prosecutors said in their first official comments an investigation is still ongoing but they are currently treating the incident as a possible suicide pact which ended with only the husband taking his own life.
The 58-year-old British tourist found dead is said to have been discovered with blood around the room as well as on his arms and chest.
His 53-year-old wife was taken to hospital with multiple cuts to her arms amid unconfirmed reports she may have been under the effects of an unknown substance.
Sources close to the ongoing investigation said she had now been released and the cuts were not 'deep ones.'
No arrests are thought to have been made but her current
