MEXICO CITY (AP) — The office of Mexican President Felipe Calderon says the mayor of a town in the violence-plagued border state of Tamaulipas has been assassinated, the second killing of a mayor in the area in two weeks.
The daughter of Mayor Marco Antonio Leal Garcia was wounded in the attack by gunmen that killed her father. There is no immediate information on the motive in the slaying.
Leal Garcia’s town of Hidalgo is located in the border state of Tamaulipas, where gunmen believed to belong to a drug gang massacred 72 migrants last week.
The township of Hidalgo borders on Nuevo Leon state, where the mayor of another small town was found murdered on Aug. 18. Local police allied with a drug gang are suspected in that killing.
