A Canadian man visiting Mexico has been murdered -- allegedly by his best friend.

Cops say Roger Corbett, 48, a Victoria, B.C., father of four was slain Sunday.

An official with Global Affairs Canada confirmed in a statement that a Canadian has been killed in Mexico and another is in custody in connection with the slaying.

Canadian officials are trying to gather more information but aren’t releasing further details because of privacy concerns.

According to the Yucatan Times, the murder occurred at a large gated home in Chicxulub -- about 320 km west of vacation hotspot, Cancun. Neighbours had heard yelling and screaming, the Victoria Times Colonist reports.

The newspaper said Corbett and his friend Brian Slater, also from Victoria and in his 40s, allegedly got into an argument and one of the men attacked the other with a kitchen knife.

The Times said the man walked to a store and told a worker he had attacked his buddy and was worried he had killed him.

Corbett died from a stomach wound, the Public Prosecutor’s Office said. Two foreigners were taken into custody, including Slater, who has not been charged while the other man was released.

American expatriate Randy Bowser -- who runs a fishing charter company -- told the Times Colonist he met Slater last year while visiting the man’s father, Earl Mycock.

Mycock died in September and Slater was apparently in Yucatan clearing up his father’s affairs.

He had planned to take two friends from Canada for a fishing trip Monday.

“It’s so very, very rare that we ever have an incident like this in Yucatan,” Bowser said.