No cartels involved - but Mexico's pyramid attack prompts new concerns

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Will Grant, Mexico correspondent, reporting from Mexico City and

Vanessa Buschschlüter, Latin America digital editor

Reuters/Luis Cortes

The National Guard was among the security forces deployed to the site after the shooting

The authorities in Mexico are still piecing together how a typical morning at the ancient pyramid complex of Teotihuacán, one of the country's foremost tourist destinations, descended into terrifying gun violence on Monday.

The video footage is disturbing. A gunman stands atop the imposing Pyramid of the Moon and opens fire on the tourists around him, who cower for cover among the pre-Hispanic stone structures.

After the ordeal, a 32-year-old Canadian woman had been killed and the gunman had died from a self-inflicted gun wound.…