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At least 19 people were killed in Mexico, including four Guatemalans, in a clash between two drug cartels in the southern state of Chiapas, the Ministry of Security announced on Monday, revising its death toll downwards.

The mayor of a municipality in southern Mexico, newly elected in the June 2 elections, was murdered on Monday on a road near Acapulco, according to the Guerrero State Prosecutor's Office. Salvador Villalba Flores, elected on behalf of the regional party Mexico Avanza (Mexico advances, left), was the victim of a "qualified homicide" on the Acapulco-Pinotepa Nacional road, according to a statement from the prosecutor's office, which has opened an investigation.

Sylvie Claire / October 8, 2023 The accident comes just five days after ten Cuban women were killed when a truck overturned on a road in the southern state of Chiapas. It also comes as the flow of migrants seeking to reach the United States continues to increase. This latest tragedy claimed the lives of "two women, three minors and 13 men, all from Venezuela and Haiti", said the Attorney General of the State of Oaxaca in a press release, adding that 27 people were injured. The National Migration Institute (INM) reported that 55 foreigners were on board the vehicle, and that Peruvian nationals were among the victims, without giving further details. The tragedy occurred at around 05:00 local time...

Hurricane Hilary, category 3 on a scale of 5, was approaching the Baja California peninsula in northwestern Mexico on Saturday. According to the US National Hurricane Center (NHC), it could bring heavy rainfall and flooding to this part of Mexico, as well as to the southern US state of California.

Some 45 bags containing human remains were discovered in a ravine in the state of Jalisco, in western Mexico.