{"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.com\/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 class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><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&#8220;Later, <strong>that vehicle catches up with them and starts shooting<\/strong>,&#8221; Salas declared at a press conference. &#8220;At this moment we have no data that allows us to assume that it was a direct attack against the municipal president of Bacanora,&#8221; 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 &#8216;el Mencho&#8217;, who led the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG).\n\nIn fact, Salas indicated that &#8220;the shots are grouped both on the left side of the driver&#8217;s door, and head-on, where&nbsp;<strong>the aggression was specifically towards the driver<\/strong>&nbsp;of the vehicle, not the passenger.&#8221;\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,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[108],"class_list":["post-500841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-international","tag-mexico"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-26i5","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}