Violence kills 10 in Mexico ahead of elections
Mexico is caught in deadly violence as the country prepares to choose congressmen, governors and mayors in mid-term elections on Sunday.
In a latest violent incident, at least ten people were killed when members of rivaling self-defense militia clashed in the south of the country. AFP reported its correspondent saw eight dead bodies of members of one of the militia groups in the village of Xolapa in Guerrero State.
A local official said the death toll could be higher, citing as many as 16 dead in the incident.
Rival factions of the United Front for Security and Development in Guerrero State (FUSDEG) presumably fought in a dispute over territory in the Acapulco-Chilpancingo corridor, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. Self-defense militias are regarded as legal forces in Mexico established to enforce law and order in indigenous communities.
Meanwhile, electoral officials deem Guerrero and its neighboring Oaxaca State as states with the most dire security situations. In these two states news correspondents have reported some of the most violent political acts in the history of Mexico.
Some of the violent acts include explosive devices being thrown into a party’s office, a number of candidates and numerous campaign workers being killed in drug-related violence and radical teachers’ union ransacking offices of political parties, burning down tens of thousands of ballots and clashing with police while vowing to block the vote on Sunday. In May, a mayoral candidate was murdered in the town of Chilapa.
Despite the violence, electoral officials say they will go ahead with the congressional, gubernatorial and municipal elections on Sunday.
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