URUAPAN, Mexico (AP) — Authorities on Friday arrested seven bodyguards suspected of being involved in the assassination earlier this month of a popular mayor in west-central Mexico who they were supposed to be protecting.

The Associated Press saw at least five of the suspects arrested by state and federal authorities in Uruapan on Friday, steps away from the site where Mayor Carlos Manzo was killed during Day of the Dead festivities on Nov. 1.

Later, the Michoacan state prosecutor’s office said in a brief statement that seven public officials, who it did not identify, were arrested for “their likely participation in aggravated homicide.”

An official familiar with the operation said all seven had been bodyguards for Manzo. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because they were no

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