{"id":500841,"date":"2026-02-24T15:02:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/mexican-mayor-shot-and-killed-son-also-dies\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T15:02:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T19:02:56","slug":"mexican-mayor-shot-and-killed-son-also-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/international\/mexican-mayor-shot-and-killed-son-also-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Mexican mayor shot and killed, son also dies"},"content":{"rendered":"Mexican politician Nora Alicia Biebrich, mayor of Bacanora, was shot this Tuesday on the Huetamo-Mazatl\u00e1n highway. <strong>The official survived<\/strong>, while her son died of blood loss, authorities <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/elalbertomedina\/status\/2026359787861197251\/video\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>.\n\nBoth left Hermosillo for Mazatl\u00e1n in a truck and, when trying to overtake a vehicle at kilometer 60, <strong>a traffic incident occurred<\/strong>, said the prosecutor of the state of Sonora, Gustavo Salas.\n\n\n<p><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/Aerol\u00edneas normalizan operaciones en el estado mexicano de Jalisco tras ola de violencia\">http:\/\/Airlines normalize operations in the Mexican state of Jalisco after wave of violence<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\"Later, <strong>that vehicle catches up with them and starts shooting<\/strong>,\" Salas declared at a press conference. \"At this moment we have no data that allows us to assume that it was a direct attack against the municipal president of Bacanora,\" he added.\n\nLocal media <a href=\"https:\/\/politico.mx\/2026\/02\/24\/atacan-a-balazos-a-nora-alicia-biebrich-alcaldesa-de-bacanora-sonora\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">indicated<\/a> that <strong>Biebrich was ambushed by armed individuals<\/strong>. However, the prosecutor limited it to a traffic incident and ruled out, for the moment, that this event is related to the explosion of violence registered after the <a href=\"https:\/\/actualidad.rt.com\/actualidad\/588365-confirman-muerte-mencho-lider-cartel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">killing<\/a> of Nemesio Oseguera, alias 'el Mencho', who led the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).\n\nIn fact, Salas indicated that \"the shots are grouped both on the left side of the driver's door, and head-on, where&nbsp;<strong>the aggression was specifically towards the driver<\/strong>&nbsp;of the vehicle, not the passenger.\"\n\nMeanwhile, <strong>the mayor is out of danger<\/strong>. It is unknown if there are any detainees in this case, while political parties are already demanding a transparent investigation to clarify the facts and find those responsible.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mexican politician Nora Alicia Biebrich, mayor of Bacanora, was shot this Tuesday on the Huetamo-Mazatl\u00e1n highway. The official survived, while her son died of blood loss, authorities reported. Both left Hermosillo for Mazatl\u00e1n in a truck and, when trying to overtake a vehicle at kilometer 60, a traffic incident occurred, said the prosecutor of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[108],"class_list":{"0":"post-500841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-international","7":"tag-mexico"},"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}