The mayor of a violence-plagued state in southern Mexico was assassination in a reported beheading. He was killed less than a week after being sworn in.

The decapitated head of a mayor in Mexico was found atop his car just six days into his tenure, marking the second official to be murdered in Guerrero’s capital in less than a week.

Alejandro Arcos' murder came days after the killing of another city official. according to the Institutional Revolutionary Party.

A mayor has been killed and decapitated just days after taking office in a violence-ridden city in Mexico, officials have said. A mere six days after taking office as mayor of Chilpancingo in the country's south,

Mayor of the city of Chilpancingo, Alejandro Arcos, was found dead less than a week after he started his new job.