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A mayoral candidate in Mexico has been shot dead by suspected cartel gunmen live on air — becoming the second politician to be killed in the state ahead of elections on June 1.

Yesenia Lara Gutiérrez of the governing Morena party was gunned down while she was greeting supporters in the small town of Texistepec in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz on Sunday, where she was running for election.

A chilling Facebook live stream shows Gutiérrez greeting residents of the town of 20,000, surrounded by supporters.

As she walks through the smiling and chanting crowd, gunfire suddenly rings out off camera.

Some 20 gunshots can be heard in the video, which was still up on Gutiérrez’s Facebook page until the following day. 

Gutiérrez’s daughter was also killed in the shooting along with two others, while three more were wounded, Veracruz Governor Rocío Nahle García, also from the Morena party of Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, said on Monday.

No information has been given on the motive of the attack, President Sheinbaum said during a morning news conference Monday.

Federal support, including contact with the state attorney general’s office, was being offered to Veracruz state officials, she added.

“We’re coordinating, particularly with the Secretary of Security, and with all the support needed during this electoral period from Veracruz and Durango,” she said.

Two federal agents were killed on Monday in the coastal city of Boca del Rio, in another part of Veracruz, according to reports.

“No [elected] position is worth dying for,” Nahle said at a press conference on Monday, where she promised justice for the victims’ families.

Attacks on politicians and political candidates are sadly all too common in Mexico during election cycles.

A record 661 attacks on people and facilities related to politics were reported last year in the country, according to human rights organization Data Cívica.

A mayoral candidate was killed during a campaign spot in a horror shooting captured on video in the southern state of Guerrero in May of last year.

Days later, the mayor of Cotija in Michoacán state was killed as she walked home from a gym with her bodyguard. 

The mayor of Guerrero’s capital, Chilpancingo, was decapitated and his head left on his car less than a week after taking office last October.

Less than two weeks ago, Germán Anuar Valencia, also from the governing party, was shot and killed in Veracruz while at his campaign headquarters in the town of Coxquihui in the north of the state.