Mexico mayor Gisela Mota slain a day after taking office

Gunmen entered the house of Gisela Mota in the city of Temixco and killed her, said the govement of Morelos state, where Temixco is located.

Two other people died in the attack and two suspects have been detained, said Morelos Goveor Graco Ramirez in the govement statement.

Officials attributed her killing to organised crime.

Mota"s leftist Democratic Revolution Party released a statement describing her as "a strong and brave woman who on taking office as mayor, declared that her fight against crime would be frontal and direct.”

Temixco is a city of about 100,000 people neighbouring Cueavaca, a resort and industrial city which has been suffering kidnappings and extortion linked to organised crime groups.

Morelos also neighbours drug cartel-plagued Guerrero state.

Mota, who had been a federal congresswoman, was swo into office on New Year"s Day. She was killed the following day.

Morelos Goveor Ramirez vowed there "would be no impunity” in her killing and promised that state officials would not cede to the challenge presented by organised crime.

Federal and state forces are deployed in Cueavaca and municipalities near the Guerrero state border in what is called "Operation Delta.”

Local mayors and officials in Mexico have often been targeted by drug cartels.