Tania Mendoza was outside a football academy when a gunman shot her multiple times before escaping.
Tania Mendoza was shot dead outside a sporting complex while waiting for her 11-year-old son
A Mexican actress and singer was shot dead while she waited to pick up her 11-year-old son from a football academy in the state of Morelos, reports say. Tania Mendoza was outside the sporting complex in the city of Cuernavaca with other parents when two armed men arrived on a motorbike on Tuesday.At least 10 women were murdered in the country every day last year, according to official data.
Human rights group Amnesty International said around a third of victims - 940 - were cases of femicideMendoza rose to fame in 2005 after a lead role in the film La Mera Reyna del Sur. She had also appeared in a number of soap operas and recorded five albums. In 2010, she was kidnapped with her husband and son, who was six months old, from the couple's car wash business. Since then, she had reported to the Morelos State Attorney General's Office several death threats.
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