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Female mayor of Temixco assassinated less than 24 hours after taking office ‘killed for less than $30,000’

The female mayor assissinated within 24 hours of being elected on an anti-corruption campaign was killed by a group paid $29,000, it has been reported. Gisela Raquel Mota Ocampo, the first woman elected as Mayor of Temixco in Morelos, Mexico, assumed office on New Year’s Day.
According to Mexican newspaper Reforma, the group was paid $29,000, although it is unlear if that was collectively or individually.
Officers embarked upon a car chase with the suspected killers, which left two of them dead, while “three others – which included a minor, a 32-year-old woman, and an 18-year-old man – were captured alive,” reported The Intercept.