MEXICO CITY (AP) — A community activist who had been threatened over a road project has been shot to death in the southern Mexico state of Chiapas.

State prosecutors say activist Sinar Corzo was shot to death on a street in the town of Arriaga, Chiapas late Thursday.

Corzo had reported receiving threats from armed men in 2017. They were apparently upset about his support for a rural road project.

Two years earlier he had tangled with local officials over construction work at a local market.

On Friday the National Human Rights Commission decried Corzo's killing. The governmental commission says that 41 activists and human rights workers have been killed in Mexico since 2006.