B.C. Woman Strangled To Death In Mexico's Yucatan State

Darpan News Desk The Canadian Press, 01 Oct, 2016 12:55 PM

MERIDA, Mexico — An official in Mexico is confirming a 74-year-old Canadian woman was killed in the Yucatan state.

State prosecutor spokesman Baruch Velasquez identified the Canadian as Barbara McClatchie Andrews.

Velasquez says she was a resident of Merida, the capital of Yucatan.

In a news release, the state prosecutor says the woman was found dead Friday morning on the side of the highway connecting Merida with Cancun.

According to the photographer's website, she had homes in both Vancouver and Merida.

Her career took her to more than 50 developing countries, and her photos and photo essays were published in several publications, including The World & I and Archaeology magazines.

Newspaper The Yucatan Times has reported the photographer was brutally strangled to death, and had been struck several times in the face and on her body.

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