(11 Dec 2024)
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Zongolica, Mexico – 10 December 2024
1. Police carrying coffin of murdered lawmaker Benito Aguas Atlahua, supporters shouting UPSOUND (Spanish): "Long live Benito"
2. People walking during funeral procession, carrying coffin
3. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Inés Atlahua, mother of Benito Aguas Atlahua: ++STARTS ON PREVIOUS SHOT AND PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 4 TO 6++
"The bad people are close. That’s why so many things happen. They wanted to kill him. They wanted to kill my son and they killed him. They rode up on a motorcycle, shot (him) and ran away."
4. Various of people standing by coffin, Atlahua’s photo on coffin
5. Supporters chanting, demanding justice
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Aguileo Oltehua Rojas, local leader: ++PARTIALLY OVERLAID BY SHOTS 7TO 8++
"Above all, we want justice. It hurts us very much. He was a great friend, a hard worker, responsible and he really doesn’t deserve that his murderers go unpunished."
7. Supporters holding banner
8. People throwing flower petals, burning incense over coffin
9. People watching procession
10. Woman throwing holy water, kissing coffin
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people bid farewell to a member of Mexico’s lower house of Congress who was shot dead in eastern Mexico.
Benito Aguas Atlahua, a member of the country’s ruling coalition, died on Monday night in hospital in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz.
Aguas Atlahua had been sworn in to Congress just three months earlier.
He had previously served as mayor of Zongolica, an Indigenous region of the state, where bereaved supporters gathered to bid him goodbye.
Following a local custom, people threw flower petals and burned a tree resin called copal over the coffin during the funeral procession on Tuesday.
The mountain region of Veracruz is among the poorest in the country.
It is also considered one of the most dangerous due to migrant smuggling as well as fuel and cargo theft.
Aguas Atlahua’s death came two months after the grisly decapitation of a mayor in the southern state of Guerrero, just a week after he took office.
AP video shot by Iván Sánchez
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