Gunmen storm Mexican village hall and shoot dead mayor

Armed men killed the mayor of the Mexican municipality of San Mateo Piñas during the last deadly attack on local officials.

Witnesses said four armed men arrived on motorcycles, stormed the village hall and opened fire on the mayor, Lilia Gema García Soto, and a local official who was in a meeting with her, Eli García Ramírez.

Two municipal police officers were also injured in the attack.

While managers still investigate the possible reason for murder, local officials are often targeted by criminal gangs for not having made their auctions.

García Soto is the second mayor to be killed in the state of Oaxaca this year. In May, the mayor of Santiago Amorepec was shot in an ambush with two other people who were in the car with him at the time of the attack.

The governor of Oaxaca condemned the latter murder, adding that crime would not remain unpunished.

However, the security forces are still looking for the four armed men, who escaped after the attack.

The state prosecutor’s office said federal agents had been deployed in the region to help locate them.

Violence against local politicians and those who present themselves to functions in Mexico have increased in recent years, convening the period of the general elections from last year.

Most attacks have occurred in small cities where organized crime groups are particularly strong, but last month Two best aids from the mayor of Mexico In an escalation of violence that shocked the country.