Gunmen shoot and kill Mexican mayor

MEXICO CITY, Aug. 4 (UPI) -- Manuel Gomez Torres, mayor of the town of Ayutla in the Mexican state of Jalisco, was shot and killed Sunday evening by unidentified gunmen.

Torres, along with one of his employees, was killed while returning to his farm.

Police suspect he may have been killed by a gang.

The Jalisco New Generation drug cartel is active in the area.

Torres' death comes more than a month after Ayutla's deputy police chief was killed. No arrests have yet been made in that case.

According to the Mexican Local Government Association, their murders are the most recent in a string of 50 unsolved homicide cases targeting local leaders since 2007.