CNN —The woman mayor of a town in western Mexico was shot dead Monday, authorities said, just hours after the country elected its first female president in a race marred by deadly attacks on candidates.
Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, mayor of Cotija in Michoacán state, was walking from a gym back to her house with her bodyguard when they were shot by people in a white van, the state attorney general said in a statement.
Both Sánchez Figueroa and her bodyguard later died in hospital, it said, adding that an investigation has been launched.
According to the think tank Mexico Evalua, around 95% of all crimes nationwide went unsolved in the country in 2022.
Sánchez Figueroa had previously been kidnapped in September 2023 in the city of Zapopan, and was released three days later.
Persons:
Yolanda Sánchez Figueroa, Sánchez Figueroa, Sánchez, Claudia Sheinbaum, Claudia Sheinbaum's, Pedro Pardo, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, Morena, “
Organizations:
CNN, Getty, state’s Ministry of Public Security
Locations:
Mexico, Cotija, Michoacán, AFP, Zapopan