Gunmen kill Mexican mayor near Monterrey

[cory777]

Source: Reuters

Suspected drug hitmen killed the mayor of a town outside Mexico's northern business city of Monterrey on Thursday, the fourth public official slain in little over a month, police said.

Mayor Prisciliano Rodriguez was shot and killed by gunmen as he drove to his ranch in his town of Doctor Gonzalez, 30 miles east of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state, an official at the attorney general's office said.

It was not immediately clear why Rodriguez, who won the mayorship last year for the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was targeted, but Nuevo Leon and the neighboring state of Tamaulipas have become major drug war flashpoints since the start of the year.

Another person traveling with Rodriguez was also killed in the attack, Reforma newspaper reported, but police declined to comment.

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[Whoa_Nelly]

1. intense

and so cold! :(

[Blue_Tires]

2. at this rate there isn't going to be anyone left alive...