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Adam Gabbatt and agencies

Mexico requests extradition of American charged in tourist death

Beach in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico.
A beach in Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, Mexico. Photograph: Carlos Sanchez Pereyra/Alamy

The US is weighing an extradition request from Mexico after authorities in the country charged an American woman with murdering another US woman shown being beaten while they vacationed in a viral video.

Prosecutors in the Mexican state of Baja California Sur have not named the suspect in the death of North Carolina’s Shanquella Robinson, who reportedly died of a severe spinal cord or neck injury while on holiday in Mexico on 29 October.

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