Mexico City – Gunmen killed two members of Mexico’s former ruling party Saturday in a mountain city in southern Mexico, local media reported.
Javier Carlos Vargas and Sosimo Hurtado, both active members of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, were riddled with bullets in the city of Tlapa in southern Guerrero state, the Mexico newspaper El Universal reported. Vargas formerly worked for the city government.
A man who answered the phone at the Guerrero state attorney general’s office said he had no information on the case, and Tlapa police could not be reached for comment.
El Universal reported that state police were investigating and had made no arrests.
The PRI ruled Mexico for 71 years before former President Vicente Fox of the National Action Party was elected in 2000.
Current President Felipe Calderon also belongs to National Action.
