Mayor slain after she takes office

The mayor of a city south of Mexico’s capital was shot to death less than a day after taking office, officials said.

Gunmen burst into Mayor Gisela Mota’s house in the city of Temixco and killed her, said the government of Morelos state, where Temixco is located.

Two presumed assailants were killed and two others detained, said Morelos Gov. Graco Ramirez in the government statement. Off icials attributed the killing to organized crime.

Mota’s leftist Democratic Revolution Party released a statement describing her as “a strong and brave woman who on taking office as mayor, declared that her f ight against crime would be frontal and direct.”

Temixco is a city of about 100,000 people neighboring Cuernavaca, a resort and industrial city that has been suffering kidnappings and extortion linked to organized crime groups.