The personal secretary and an adviser to Mexico City’s mayor were shot dead Tuesday, authorities said, in the worst attack against public officials in the capital in recent years.
Mayor Clara Brugada — who holds the second most powerful political post in the country to President Claudia Sheinbaum said in a statement that her secretary Ximena Guzmán and adviser José Muñoz were killed in the Moderna neighborhood. The motive was under investigation, reports AP from Mexico City.
Later, in a brief statement to the press, a visibly upset Brugada said she had worked with both for years. She vowed that her administration “will continue its relentless fight against insecurity.”
The attack happened at around 7 a.m. when Muñoz and Guzmán were in an Audi on a busy Mexico City thoroughfare. There were four bullet holes clustered on the driver’s side of the windshield. One body lay on the pavement.