Mexico City, Oct 7 (Reporter) The mayor of a Mexican city plagued by drug violence has been murdered less than a week after taking office, media reports said on Monday. According to BBC reports, Alejandro Arcos was found dead on Sunday in Chilpancingo, a city of around 280,000 people in the southwestern state of Guerrero. He had been mayor for six days. Evelyn Salgado, the state governor, said the city was in mourning over a murder that "fills us with indignation." The mayor's death came three days after the city government's new secretary, Francisco Tapia, was shot dead, the reports said. The investigation into drug violence in Guerrero, a state plagued by cartels, has not yet been disclosed, but it has resulted in the murder of numerous politicians. Authorities confirmed Arcos's murder after unverified social media images showed what appeared to be his remains. According to Arcos's social media posts, he spent his days in the office overseeing disaster relief efforts following Hurricane John's severe flooding. Pictures were posted to his Facebook account in the hours before his death of meetings with relief workers and residents, the reports said. More than 450,000 people have been murdered and tens of thousands have gone missing across Mexico since the government deployed the army to combat drug trafficking in 2006...////...