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Suspected drug hitmen killed the mayor of a town outside Mexico's northern business city of Monterrey Thursday, the fourth public official slain in little over a month, police said.
The hit was reported the same day that Mexican authorities said seven people were killed in a shootout between rival drug gangs in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco.
In Doctor Gonzalez, 30 miles east of Monterrey in Nuevo Leon state, Mayor Prisciliano Rodriguez was shot and killed by gunmen as he drove to his ranch, an official at the attorney general's office said.
It was not immediately clear why Rodriguez, who won the mayorship last year for the opposition Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was targeted, but the Attorney General of Nuevo Leon states it is not cartel related, as only two weapons were used in the dual execution.
Another person traveling with Rodriguez was also killed in the attack, Reforma newspaper reported, but police declined to comment.
Mayor Rodriguez is the second mayor of Nuevo Leon to be executed in 36 days. Mayor Edelmiro Cavazos was found gagged, bound, tortured, and executed on the side of the road on Aug 18 after being kidnapped 3 days earlier.
