Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
WASHINGTON DC, 4th June. The Attorney General’s office of the western Mexican state of Michoacan on Monday has said that the investigation is underway into the murder of a local election candidate which occurred hours before voting began.
The office said on Sunday in a statement that Israel Delgado Vega, 35, a member of the coalition Sigamos Haciendo Historia (Let’s Keep Making History), a candidate for a government position in the municipality of Cuitzeo was killed Saturday night by unidentified individuals who shot him from a motorcycle in the town of San Benito Juarez.
“The perpetrators fled and Israel Delgado died on the spot after the attack,” it added as quoted by a news media report.
It said that the incident took place on Sunday hours before the starting of the largest electoral process in the country’s history in which Mexicans will elect a new President.
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