During their conflict, Pakistan had also claimed to have downed at least five
"This is about fighting corruption," Sheinbaumin one of her morning news briefings. "This is the defence of the Mexican people for justice, for honesty, for integrity."
A loss of judicial knowledgeHow effective Sunday's elections are in achieving those ideals remains to be seen. Voter turnout is expected to be low, according to Arias.“Participation is not expected to surpass 10 to 20 percent," Arias explained.
That projection is a significant drop from normal election turnouts, she added. "In Mexico, participation is usually around 60 percent.”The Judicial Electoral Observatory, a monitoring body formed by organisations including Laboratorio Electoral, has also noted that there are
in some areas than in others during this election cycle.
In Mexico City, for example, there are 773 candidates running for 168 local positions, while in the port city of Campeche, there are only 20 hopefuls vying for 11 local seats.Local officials warn the death toll could rise after heavy rainfall flooded a market town in Niger State.
At least 115 people have been killed after heavy flooding submerged the market town of Mokwa in Nigeria’s northcentral Niger State, destroying thousands of homes, according to an emergency services official, in a country beset by deadly storms every year.Head of the operations office in Minna, capital of Niger State, Husseini Isah, said on Friday that many people were still in peril as rescue efforts continue.
“We have so far recovered 115 bodies and more are expected to be recovered because the flood came from far distance and washed people into the River Niger. Downstream, bodies are still being recovered,” a Niger State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) spokesman, Ibrahim Audu Husseini, told the AFP news agency. “So, the toll keeps rising.”Torrential rains battered Mokwa late on Wednesday and lasted for several hours, washing away dozens of homes, with many residents still missing. A dam collapse in a nearby town caused the situation to rapidly deteriorate.