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MEXICO CITY A mayoral candidate in a city in northern Mexico was killed Thursday, the latest in a string of attacks that have cost the lives of more than three dozen people running for office.
The killing took place in the northern border state of Sonora. The victim, Abel Murrieta, was also a former state attorney general. The state prosecutors office did not say how he died, but a video showed him laying inert on a sidewalk with blood on his face and what appeared to be a spent shell casing lying nearby. I condemn those who carried out this cowardly attack, said the current state Attorney General Claudia Indira.