Local candidate from Mexico's ruling party shot in Oaxaca

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - A ruling party candidate for the state legislature in Mexico's southern Oaxaca state was shot several times on Saturday morning while travelling on a local highway, the state attorney general's office said.

Rosalia Palma, candidate of the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party, or PRI, in next weekend's local elections, was in critical condition at a local hospital after suffering two gunshot wounds to her arm and another wound to her chest, the state attorney general's office said in a statement.