Mexico candidate wounded in third attack on politicians
Mexico candidate wounded in third attack on politicians
Attack comes two days after the leader of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) in Oaxaca was found dead
AFP
Published: 14:27 June 30, 2013
Gulf News
Oaxaxa, Mexico: Gunmen attacked a woman running for the Oaxaca state legislature on Saturday, wounding her while killing her husband and an assistant in the third shooting against politicians this week ahead of Mexican local elections.
Rosalia Palma, a member of the ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), was travelling on a highway in a sport-utility vehicle when assailants fired 35 times with R-15 assault rifles and 9mm handguns, state police said.
Palma was seriously wounded while her husband, Efrain Cruz Bruno, and assistant, Talia Cruz Ibanez, died in the attack in the southern state. The candidate, running in a coalition with the Green Party, was taken to a hospital in the state capital.
The attack came two days after the leader of the leftist Democratic Revolution Party (PRD) in Oaxaca was found dead with three gunshot wounds to the head in the municipality of Tuxtepec
Elsewhere, two politicians dropped out of the elections in the northwestern state of Sinaloa after another candidate was assassinated in the region plagued by drug violence.
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