A mayor in Mexico was killed less than 2 hours after being sworn in

By artappraiser on Fri, 01/04/2019 - 5:12am |

By Nicole Chavez, Ana Melger & Bethlehem Feleke @ CNN.com, Jan. 3

The mayor of a town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca was killed less than two hours after taking office, the state attorney general's office said. Alejandro Aparicio had just been sworn in as mayor of Tlaxiaco on Tuesday and was on his way to a meeting at city hall along with some of his colleagues when a man opened fired and struck him, the office said [....]

Aparicio is the second mayor killed in Mexico since President López Obrador took office last month. At least 72 mayors and mayors-elect have been killed since 2006, according to Mexico's National Association of Mayors. [....]

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https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/02/americas/mexico-mayor-killed-oaxaca/index.html