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Mexico mayor slain a day after taking office
Local residents gather on January 2, 2016 outside the house of Gisela Mota, newly elected Mayor of Temixco, Morelos State, Mexico, murdered on Saturday (January 2) at home by gunmen.
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Two of the attackers were reportedly killed by police as they fled the scene on Saturday, and three suspects were apprehended later in the surrounding vicinity, state police commissioner Alberto Capella said. Cartels seeking to control communities and towns have often targeted local officials and mayors in Mexico.
Temixco is a city of about 100,000 located six kilometers from the capital, Cuernavaca.
Investigators comb over a auto near where Ms Mota was killed.
The mayor of Temixco, Mexico, was shot and killed Saturday, the day after she took office, NBC News reported.
Morelos state where Temixco City is situated, is known for drug cartel activity.
News of Gisela Mota’s killing came in a tweet from the Morelos state governor Graco Ramierz.
PRD national president Agustín Basave condemned the killing and observed that Mota, 33, was a strong and courageous woman who had declared on taking office that her fight against crime would be “head-on and direct”. She was shot dead a day later. She had won election for mayor last June.
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Federal and state forces are deployed in Cuernavaca and municipalities near the Guerrero state border in what was called “Operation Delta”.