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State Assembly Candidate Assassinated in Mexico

by Associated Press

   MEXICO CITY --

   Officials in the southern Mexico state of Guerrero say a state assembly
   candidate has been killed just days after another office seeker was
   shot to death in the same city.
   The ruling Institutional Revolutionary Party says candidate Dulce
   Rebaja Pedro was killed Sunday.
   The Guerrero state prosecutors' office said a state policeman was also
   killed, and both bodies were found in a truck on a highway outside the
   city of Chilapa.
   Antonia Jaimes Moctezuma, a state assembly candidate for the leftist
   Democratic Revolution Party, was shot to death last week.
   Chilapa is one of the most violent cities in Mexico because of a turf
   battle between two local drug gangs.
   Violence threatens to mar local races that are being held
   simultaneously with Mexico's July 1 presidential elections.