Mexican mayor killed just few days after taking office
Six days after assuming office, on Sunday, Alejandro Arcos, the mayor of Chilpancingo in the state of Guerrero in southern Mexico, was slain, according to local officials.
"His loss has left all of Guerrero society in mourning and fills us with indignation," Guerrero state governor Evelyn Salgado wrote on social media X.
Arcos was elected in June as a representative of an opposition coalition that included the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Following his assassination, the PRI denounced the crime as "cowardly" and called for justice.
According to PRI President Alejandro Moreno, Arcos's murder came three days after the homicide of Francisco Tapia, secretary of Chilpancingo's city council.
The state attorney general's office said it had opened an investigation into Arcos' homicide.
One of the poorest states in Mexico, Guerrero, has seen years of violence as a result of turf warfare between gangs vying for control over drug manufacturing and trafficking.
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