A mother who waged a two-year battle to bring her daughter’s killer to justice has been shot to death, possibly by the same man suspected of murdering the teenager.

THE Mexican army have discovered several clandestine graves holding at least 20 bodies near a ranch in the northern border state of Chihuahua.

Hurricane Dean raked the Mexican mainland Wednesday and battered evacuated oil platforms, forcing thousands to flee as it regained some of the force it unleashed on the Yucatan Peninsula.