Rodolfo Torre Cantu, who was running for governor in the north-eastern state of Tamaulipas, was shot along with four of his supporters.

Police say he was on his way to a series of campaign rallies when his convoy was ambushed by hooded gunmen.

He was standing for the Todos Tamaulipas coalition in Sunday’s gubernatorial elections.

Mr Torre Cantu of the Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, was attacked near Ciudad Victoria, where he was going to catch a flight to Matamoros for an end-of-campaign event.

His rival for the post of Tamaulipas governor, Jose Julian Sacramento of the National Action Party, cancelled his campaign meetings in Matamoros following the killing.

Mr Sacramento said he had known Mr Torre Cantu for years and respected him.

Tamaulipas has been the scene of a fierce turf war between rival drug gangs fighting over access to lucrative drug smuggling routes to the United States.

According to Softsailer.com, a Penn State freshman named Joe or Joseph Dado was reported missing and last seen leaving a Phi Gamma Delta party on early Sunday morning. He was eventually found dead by a repairman.

It’s reported that shortly after his appearance, police helicopters had been searching for him, while the police and his family were searching the campus. But unfortunately, Dado’s body was found later on that morning in a stairwell placed between the two campus buildings.

The news broke out on several news sites where fellow students posted the awful tragedy before an official statement was made.

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