Mexican mayor's severed head placed atop pickup truck 6 days after taking office
The mayor of a violence-plagued city in Mexico was killed on Sunday with his decapitated body left in a pickup truck and his severed head placed atop the vehicle's roof.
Mexican mayor assassinated six days after taking office, three days after city secretary was killed
Alejandro Arcos, mayor of the Mexican city Chilpancingo, was murdered on Sunday after just 6 days in office, the state's governor confirmed on Monday. The murder comes three days after the city secretary, Francisco Tapia, was shot and killed.
Mexican mayor killed less than a week after taking office
Chilpancingo is the capital of Guerrero, a state with a reputation for violent crime which is also home to the tourist hot spot Acapulco. The state governor Evelyn Salgado has condemned the killing and vowed to hold to account those responsible.
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Mexican mayor assassinated days after taking office
The mayor of the capital of Mexico's violence-plagued state of Guerrero was killed on Sunday less than a week after he took office, the state's governor confirmed.
The mayor of a state capital in Mexico is killed less than 1 week after taking office
Police and Mexico's National guard filled the streets of Chilpancingo in Guerrero state Sunday after the Mayor was killed just a week after he took office.
Mexican mayor's severed head placed atop pick-up truck 6 days after taking office
The mayor of a violence-plagued city in Mexico was killed on Sunday with his decapitated body left in a pickup truck and his severed head placed atop the vehicle's roof.
The mayor of a Mexican state capital is killed less than a week after taking office
The mayor of the capital of southern Mexico's Guerrero state has been killed less than one week after he took office.
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Alejandro Arcos' murder came days after the killing of another city official. according to the Institutional Revolutionary Party.
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