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Mexico's national guard secures a Forensic Medical Service building in Acapulco, where the body of recently elected mayor Salvador Villalba Flores is being kept after he was assassinated. Villalba -- who was to take office in October in Copala, a town of about 4,000 residents about 130 kilometers (80 miles) southeast of Acapulco -- was shot dead while traveling on a highway, according to prosecutors in Guerrero state. IMAGES
Police try to extinguish vehicles on fire outside Guerrero State Prosecutor's Office during a demonstration over the death of a student from the Ayotzinapa rural teacher training college at the hands of the police. The demonstration takes place against a backdrop of flaring tensions over the case of 43 students from the same college who went missing nearly a decade ago. IMAGES
Mourners attend a mass for the victims of a roof collapse at a church in northeastern Mexico that left 11 people dead and another dozen injured. The tragedy struck the coastal town of Ciudad Madero, in Tamaulipas state, when about 70 people were attending a baptism at the Santa Cruz Catholic Church, according to officials. IMAGES
People gather outside a detention facility in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, for a vigil dedicated to the dozens of migrants who died there in a fire. The migrants were believed to have lit the fire as a demonstration because they feared they would be deported, according to President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. IMAGES
The trial of Genaro Garcia Luna, once-powerful Mexican government minister who oversaw his country's war on drug trafficking and now charged with facilitating the smuggling of narcotics, opens in New York. The 54-year-old is the highest-ranking Mexican official to be charged in New York federal prosecutors' extensive pursuit of alleged drug traffickers from Central and South America and their ministerial accomplices. IMAGES
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