12-05-2018 04:03 via chron.com

3rd local candidate in Mexico's July 1 voting killed in week

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Gunmen killed a mayoral candidate in central Guanajuato state Friday, the third local candidate in Mexico's July 1 elections murdered in the past week and one of more than a dozen during the entire campaign.
Most of the candidates for mayorships or state assembly seats killed have been in the drug cartel-plagued southern state of Guerrero.
The Guanajuato state prosecutors' office confirmed that mayoral candidate Remedio Aguirre had been shot to death in the town of Apase
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