Mexican actress Tania Mendoza shot dead while she was waiting to pick her son from Football Academy

According to reports, a Mexican actress and singer Tania Mendoza was killed while waiting to pick up her 11-year-old son from a football academy in Morelos state.

Tania Mendoza was with other parents outside a sporting centre in Cuernavaca on Tuesday when two armed guys approached on a motorcycle.

Before fleeing with his partner, one of them shot her many times. According to official statistics, at least ten women were slain in the country every day last year.

Amnesty International, a human rights organisation, reported that nearly a third of the victims - 940 - were incidents of femicide or the purposeful murder of women because of their gender, describing it as a "terrible epidemic."

Mendoza, 42, rose to prominence after starring in the film La Mera Reyna del Sur in 2005. She also acted in a few soap operas, but in recent years she focused on her singing career, recording five albums.

She was abducted at the couple's car wash company in 2010, together with her husband and six-month-old son. She had received multiple death threats since then, which she had reported to the Morelos State Attorney General's Office.

Mendoza's assassination has yet to be determined, as has any plausible motivation. After the shooting, authorities conducted a search for the perpetrators, but no one was apprehended.

Although no specifics were provided, the Attorney General's Office told Efe news agency that the case would be examined as femicide.

Mexico has always struggled with high crime rates, with drug cartels being a major source of violence. Femicide is becoming more of a worry, but despite a growing push to raise awareness about the problem, authorities have been unable to prevent an increase in the number of women killed.

Cases are rarely investigated, according to Amnesty International, and most culprits go unpunished.