Mexican mayor 'shot dead' by drug gang after blocking roads amid coronavirus lockdown

[danieldemol]

‘A Mexican mayor has been shot by a gang in the southern Mexican state of Quintana Roo, after he blocked the roads to his town to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus.

According to the local media, Obed Duron Gomez, who was the mayor of Mahahual, was shot while he was on his way to meet with the community of Xcalak.

Gomez was in a white minibus with other passengers when unidentified individuals opened fire from another vehicle that pulled up alongside the bus.

The mayor was declared dead after hours of emergency surgery at the hospital.

While the gunmen managed to escape, the police found 20 spent cartridges at the scene of crime.

The media reports said that Gomez had received threatening notes from criminal gangs who use the area to ship drugs. The gang had to pick up a drug shipment from the coast after the mayor declared his decision to block Mahahual’s roads amid the coronavirus pandemic.

The General Prosecution of Quintana Roo said that they were investigating the case, however the motive of the murder is still not confirmed. Some reports claimed that the murder was a revenge attack after the arrest of five people last week.’

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[amorphous_constellation]

Reading stories like that does give points to the 'right' in me. I hope such chaos never occurs in america

 

[Stevicus]

It just goes to show that it's still business as usual in the criminal underworld of the cartels. Of course, they might be subject to the same economic woes as everyone else, so they may get more and more desperate as their revenue dwindles.

I just came across another recent story about a Mexican gold mine which was robbed by an armed group with a plane. Armed group robs Mexican gold mine, flees in plane

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - An armed group stormed a gold mine in northern Mexico and stole bars of gold and silver alloy before fleeing in a light aircraft, mine operator Minas de Oro Nacional said.

Minas de Oro Nacional, a subsidiary of Canadian firm Alamos Gold Inc., said in a statement late on Wednesday that the robbery at the Mulatos mine in Sonora state occurred when a group of five “heavily armed” people assaulted security staff who were transferring bars of the precious metals onto a plane.