MEXICO CITY, Feb 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — A journalist was shot dead Thursday, a prosecutor said, the fifth such murder in Mexico this year.
Heber Lopez Vazquez, who worked for a news website called Noticias Web in the southern Oaxaca state, was shot while he was in his car, state prosecutor Arturo Calvo told the TV channel Milenio.
Two suspects were arrested as they tried to flee the scene of the crime and their guns were recovered, Calvo said.
It is not known who ordered the killing, he said.
This makes five killings of journalists so far this year in Mexico, according to tally based on data from Reporters Without Borders (RSF), a press freedom advocacy organization.
Mexico is considered one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists.
At least seven were killed last year, according to RSF, although it is not known for certain that in all of those cases the killing was linked to their work. — NNN-AGENCIES
