A candidate who was seeking the mayor of the municipality of Chilón for the ruling party Morena, his son and a man who accompanied them were ambushed and killed in the state Mexican from Chiapas (south), the local prosecutor’s office reported this Wednesday.

Pedro Gutierrez, who served as a judge in Chilón and now sought to be a mayor, his eight-year-old son and another man were shot dead by an armed commando, and later burned inside a truck in which they were traveling.

The events were recorded early this Wednesday when the victims “were intercepted by a group of armed men who ambushed the family with a hail of bullets,” authorities said in a statement.

The bullets caused the vehicle to skid and fall into a ravine. After killing the three people, “the criminals set them on fire,” the prosecution added.

A woman who was also accompanying the politician managed to flee from the attackers and denounced the events.

The town hall of Chilón, an indigenous municipality located in the north of Chiapassaid that the attack on Gutierrez and his family “could be the result of old quarrels.”

Mexico It holds general elections in June, in which the 500 seats in the federal Chamber of Deputies will be renewed and governors from various states and thousands of local offices will be elected.

Along with the violence linked to organized crime that shakes Mexico, hundreds of politicians have suffered attacks or have been assassinated and the attacks multiply in electoral times.

According to a count by the consulting firm Etellekt, between last September and until March 5 of this year, there were 55 murdered politicians, of whom 14 were pre-candidates.

Mexico Since December 2010, when the government launched a controversial anti-drug operation, it has recorded more than 300,000 violent deaths, according to official figures that attribute most of these crimes to organized crime.

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