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After newly elected mayor is beheaded in Mexico, others ask federal authorities for protection
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Four mayors in Mexico have asked federal authorities for protection after a colleague was beheaded last week in the southern state of Guerrero, officials said Tuesday.
Mayor Alejandro Arcos had been sworn into office less than a week before he was murdered.
Federal Public Safety Secretary Omar Garcia Harfuch said four mayors requested protection on Monday, a day after Arcos' remains were found. The requests came from Guerrero and another violence-plagued state, Guanajuato.
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