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By Jamie Komarnicki

CALGARY — With the Prairies locked in a winter deep freeze last week, Sheila and Andrew Nabb snapped up a last-minute trip to an all-inclusive resort on sunsoaked Mexico’s Pacific coast.

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The couple left chilly Calgary on Thursday and arrived at their five-star beachside accommodations, the Hotel Riu Emerald Bay resort in Mazatlan.

By Friday morning, something went horribly wrong.

At some point in the night, Sheila Nabb had emerged from her hotel room. She was found, knocked out and bloodied, inside a hotel elevator.

The 37-year-old office manager at Calgary’s Active Back to Health Centre was brutally beaten. Several facial bones were shattered. Authorities in Mexico have so far provided few clues about what happened, and why.

Family and friends are reeling from the attack and say they have no idea why anyone would hurt Nabb.

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“Why, we don’t know. No idea at all,” said her uncle, Robert Prosser, speaking from his Kingston, N.S., home.