MEXICO CITY, June 26 (Xinhua) -- A total of 28 policemen, making up the entire police force of a Mexican town in the state of Michoacan, were detained and disarmed for an internal affairs investigation, state police said Sunday.
"All the officers of the Ocampo municipal police force were detained for (an) internal affairs investigation," the Michoacan state police force tweeted.
The arrests are likely related to Thursday's assassination of mayoral candidate Fernando Angeles Juarez, the Michoacan State Attorney General's Office told CNN Monday in an interview.
Juarez, a candidate for the leftist Democratic Revolution Party, was killed Thursday morning in Ocampo, a rural township with a population of around 24,000 people.
The Latin American country will hold its general elections on July 1 to choose a new president as well as a large number of governors and officials at different levels.
Juarez was not the first politician killed in the run-up to the election. Omar Gomez Lucatero, an independent candidate for mayor of Agulilla, was shot dead on Wednesday afternoon, less than 24 hours before Juarez's death.
