Mayors in Mexico Demand More Security After Two Weekend Murders BBC News
go to original July 25, 2016

Police were on patrol in San Juan Chamula after the mayor there was shot on Saturday (EPA)

Mayors in Mexico have demanded they be given extra protection after two of their number were killed in separate incidents on Saturday.

The National Association of Mayors asked the federal government to offer added security to mayors "at risk".

On Saturday, the mayor of the town of Pungabarato in southern Guerrero state was shot dead only hours after a mayor in southern Chiapas had been killed.

Local officials are often targeted by criminal gangs in Mexico.

The association asked the government "to prepare and put in place security protocols for mayors" and to investigate the killings.

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