Alejandro Arcos, the Mexican mayor of Chilpancingo, was assassinated Sunday after only six days in office. State prosecutors acknowledged the violent death of the mayor, but provided no details about his assassination,

The mayor of a city in southern Mexico was murdered less than a week after taking office, authorities said, a crime condemned by President Claudia Sheinbaum on Monday as "deplorable." Local media reported that Chilpancingo mayor Alejandro Arcos was decapitated and his head left on the hood of a pick-up truck,

Alejandro Arcos, the newly elected mayor of Chilpancingo, capital city of Mexico's Guerrero state, was assassinated on Sunday. His murder comes less than a week after he assumed office in a city infamous for its high crime rate.