Woman mayor shows her horrific scars after surviving two assassination attempts by Mexican gangs

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Baring her mutilated body for the camera, Maria Santos Gorrostieta shows the horrific results of two assassination attempts by Mexican criminals

As the mayor of the town of Tiquicheo, she has become a key target for drug gangs who have turned the country into a grotesquely violent narco-state.

But despite being scarred physically and mentally by the attacks, the extraordinarily brave Mrs Gorrostieta remains defiant.

'I wanted to show you my wounds because I'm not ashamed that my body is mutilated like this,' she said.

Injuries: Maria Santos Gorrostieta, the mayor of the Mexican town of Tiquicheo shows her horrific injuries after surviving two assassination attempts

Brave: The mayor said some people had even doubted that she was attacked

'It is the result of shameful acts which have marked my life and the lives of my children. But I am not ashamed.

'There are some that have said I made these attacks up. But I did not and now I show the physical proof to those who have doubted me.'...

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Police Seek Motive in Mexican Attack That Killed 18

MEXICO CITY -- The gunmen pulled up to the party hall, blocked the exits and started shooting at the crowd. The man for whom the party was being thrown was shot dead. So was his brother. Four musicians from the band were killed.

The attack on the party in the northern city of Torreon that killed 18 young people early Sunday morning seemed straight out of Mexico’s organized crime playbook: members of one drug gang killing off their rivals.

But on Monday investigators said that they had yet to link anybody at the party with drug cartels and were still trying to determine a motive for the attack...

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