Mayor candidate, 3 of their supporters shot dead during the campaign rally in Mexico

A candidate for mayor and three of her followers were shot on Sunday at an election campaign event in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz, said the governor of the state and marked the youngest politician who was targeted by violence in the country.

Jaenia Lara, the Morena party of President Claudia Sheinbaum for the mayor of Texistepec, was identified by the local media as a killed politician.

The film material published online during a Facebook exposure of the politician shows people who run and scream people, while shots on a procession of motorcycles and supporters who wear Morena flags ring.

Other pictures split online seemed to show body on the street.

“We will find those who are wounded for the cowardly murder of Morena candidates and supporters in Texistepec; four dead and three,” published the governor of the state of Veracruz, Rocio Nahle, on social media.

“No position or no office is worth a person's life.”

The state's Attorney General confirmed on social media that it had initiated an investigation.

Lara had posted several pictures on Facebook and showed her campaigns in the entire region.

“The strength of our youth is the vitality that motivates me to go on day by day,” she only wrote hours before shooting.

Criminal violence has murdered around 480,000 people in Mexico since 2006.

Politicians who aim in Mexico

Attacks on politicians are common in Mexico, especially at the local level, due to violence, which is associated with cartels, corruption and trading in multi-billion doffrings.

The murder takes place two days after Cecilia Ruvalcaba, a member of the council in the western state of Mexico Jalisco, was put down in a hospital. Last month, Jose Luis Pereira, a high -ranking member of the government of Teocaltiche, was shot and killed During the meal in a restaurant in Jalisco.

In December 2024, a Mexican congress member who was a member of the governing coalition was shot In Veracruz.

A mayor was about two months earlier murdered and beheaded In the southern state of Guerrero. The next month was a former prosecutor and local police officer arrested in connection with the gruesome killing.

In June 2024 a Mayor was killed In South Mexico, less than a week after the murder of another politician in the same region was murdered.

A local in the same month City councilor Was shot down when she left her home in Guerrero. Her murder came for a few days after the mayor of a city in western Mexico and her bodyguard were Killed outside of a gymJust a few hours after Sheinbaum's presidential victory.

In March 2024 a Mayor was shot In a restaurant with his 14-year-old son in Morelia, the capital of the western state of Michoacan. His son survived.