Mexico : Violence in Chiapas

There's been an outbreak of violence in Mexico between supporters of rival political groups in the troubled southern state of Chiapas.

Details are sketchy, but local police say four people have been killed and more than twenty injured in clashes between supporters of the Institutional Revolutionary Party and their opponents.

The violence comes less than two days after local elections in which the party lost control of the state for the first time in seven decades.

The BBC Mexico correspondent says it is too early to know why the two groups are fighting, but the area is close to a stronghold of the Zapatista guerrillas who launched an uprising in 1994 to demand greater indigenous rights. The governor-elect, Pablo Salazar, has promised to restart peace talks with the Zapatista guerrillas.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service