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Mexican actress
Tania Mendoza
, the star of a film inspired by the novel
La Reina del Sur
, was shot to death
in the city of Cuernavaca
, local authorities reported on Wednesday.
Mendoza, 42, was attacked on Tuesday afternoon when she was
waiting for her son to leave a sports center
, reported a source from the Morelos state prosecutor's office who asked not to be identified because she was not authorized to testify.
According to witnesses, the assailant arrived
on a motorcycle and immediately shot the actress
.
His son, a minor, would have witnessed the crime.
Mendoza, who was also a model and actress, starred in the 2005 film
La mera mera Reina del Sur
, inspired by the novel
La Reina del Sur
, by Spanish
artist Arturo Pérez Reverte
.
The actress had small roles in programs and soap operas on the Televisa network.
Already
in 2010, Mendoza had been kidnapped
along with her husband and son.
Cells of different criminal groups linked to drug trafficking operate in Cuernavaca.
Mexico is hit by a wave of violence in which more than 300,000 people have been killed since December 2006, according to official accounts that attribute most of these crimes to drug trafficking.
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