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Shimla, Oct 23 (PTI) The family of Anjali Ryot, who was killed in a shootout between two drug gangs in Mexico, was shattered here in Himachal Pradesh when they got a call about her death from her brother.
Her father K D Ryot told PTI over the phone that it was difficult for him to believe that she is no more.
She had spent three-four months with them in Solan last year after the coronavirus outbreak, he recalls.
Anjali and her husband Utkarsh Shrivastava had gone to Mexico to celebrate her 30th birthday on October 22 from their current home at San Jose city in California of the United States, her father said.
Utkarsh informed her younger brother Ashish, who currently lives in Chicago, that she was shot dead in the Caribbean coast resort of Tulum soon after they had taken ice cream from a stall following their dinner, he added.
Ashish called his father on October 21 to inform about the tragedy, in which a German woman was also killed.