Safety probe after hotel blast kills seven

A top-level investigation was under way today after a huge gas blast devastated a resort hotel on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, killing seven people, including five Canadian tourists.

Two Mexican employees of the sprawling, 676-room Grand Riviera Princess hotel in Playa del Carmen, south of Cancun, were also killed in the blast, said Francisco Alor, attorney general of Quintana Roo, where the resorts are located.