Mexican candidate shot dead

A Mexican politician who was expected to win a state election has been killed on the campaign trail.



Rodolfo Torre Cantu, who was running for governor in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas, was shot along with four of his supporters.



The police say he was on his way to a series of campaign rallies when hooded gunmen ambushed his convoy.



He was standing for the Todos Tamaulipas coalition in yesterday’s gubernatorial elections.



Torre Cantu of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, was attacked near Ciudad Victoria, where he was going to catch a flight to Matamoros for an end-of-campaign event.



His rival for the post of Tamaulipas governor, Jose Julian Sacramento of the National Action Party, cancelled his campaign meetings in Matamoros following the killing.