Gunmen have killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas within the newest lethal assault on native officers.
Witnesses mentioned 4 armed males arrived on bikes, stormed the village corridor and opened hearth on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and an area official who was in a gathering along with her, Eli García Ramírez.
Two municipal law enforcement officials had been additionally injured within the assault.
Whereas officers are nonetheless investigating the doable motive for the killing, native officers are sometimes focused by felony gangs for failing to do their bidding.
García Soto is the second mayor to be killed in Oaxaca state this yr. In Could, the mayor of Santiago Amoltepec was shot lifeless in an ambush together with two different individuals who had been within the automobile with him on the time of the assault.
The governor of Oaxaca has condemned this newest killing, including that the crime wouldn’t go unpunished.
Nonetheless, safety forces are nonetheless trying to find the 4 gunmen, who escaped after the assault.
The state prosecutor’s workplace mentioned federal brokers had been deployed to the realm to assist find them.
Violence in opposition to native politicians and people operating for workplace in Mexico has been on the rise lately, spiking within the run-up to final yr’s basic election.
Many of the assaults occurred in small cities the place organised crime teams are significantly sturdy, however final month two top aides of the mayor of Mexico City were shot dead in the capital in an escalation of violence which shocked the nation.
