Gunmen in the latest deadly attack on local officials killed the mayor of the Mexican Municipality of San Mateo Pinas.
The witnesses said that four armed men reached the motorcycles, the farm was decayed and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gem Garcia Soto and a local official who was at a meeting with her, Eli Garcia Ramirez.
The two municipal police officers were also injured in the attack.
While officials continue to investigate the possible motive for murder, local officials are often directed by a criminal gang because they did not perform their competition.
Garcia Soto is the second mayor at this year killed in Oakaca in the state of Oakac. In May, the mayor of Santiago Amaltepec was shot in ambush together with two more people who were in the car with him at the time of the attack.
The Governor Oaxake condemned this the latest killing, adding that the crime would not go unpunished.
However, the security forces continue to seek four weapons, which fled after the attack.
The state prosecutor’s office said that the federal agents were arranged in the area to find them.
Violence against local politicians and those working for the office in Mexico increased in recent years, Šiljka during last year’s general election.
Most of the attacks occurred in small towns in which criminal groups are organized separately strong, but last month The two upper assistants of the Mayor of the Mexican city were killed in the capital in escalating the violence that shocked the country.
