Salvador Villalva Flores, a recently elected mayor was shot and killed on Monday, June 17, while traveling on a highway in southern Mexico, in the state of Guerrero.
Guerrero is home to a number of criminal organisations vying for control of territory.
HOW HE WAS KILLED
The Mexican Mayor-elect was on a bus when he was fatally shot in the head in the town of San Pedro las Playas, according to the Guerrero state prosecutor’s office.
That beach town is nearly two hours up the coast from Copala, where Villalva was elected mayor on June 2.
Local media also reported Villalba had decided to run for mayor after his friend, a candidate, was murdered in June 2023.
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BLOODIEST ELECTION IN MEXICO HISTORY
At least 34 political candidates have been killed across Mexico in the run-up to and aftermath of the June 2 election, according to the human rights organisation Data Civica.
Salvador Villalba Flores was to take office in October in Copala … Prosecutors said that they had launched an investigation into the murder, but declined to provide further details.
