Small town mayor shot dead in Mexico's Jalisco state
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Authorities in Mexico say a small town's mayor has been shot dead in the west-central state of Jalisco.
Jalisco prosecutors say in a statement that municipal police in Jilotlan de los Dolores received a report Sunday morning of a body in a car on a highway outside the town.
At the scene they found town mayor Juan Carlos Andrade Magana dead with multiple gunshot wounds.
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The prosecutor's office says Andrade's killing is under investigation.
National newspaper El Universal reports that he was running for re-election with the Citizens' Movement party. Mexico has national elections July 1.
Jilotlan is in southern Jalisco near the border with Michoacan state, a region that is home to significant drug cartel activity.