Mexican journalist Mario Gomez killed while leaving his home
Source: Reuters
JULIA LOVE AND NOE TORRES
MEXICO CITY
REUTERS
PUBLISHED 34 MINUTES AGO
A Mexican journalist was murdered in the southern state of Chiapas on Friday, authorities and his employer said, the latest attack against the press in one of the world’s most dangerous countries for media workers.
As he was leaving his home in the city of Yajalon on Friday afternoon, Mario Gomez was confronted by two suspects and shot in the abdomen, according to El Heraldo de Chiapas, the local newspaper that employed him. Gomez was taken to a hospital, where he died of his injuries. The suspects fled the scene.
“We vigorously condemn the cowardly aggression suffered by our colleague,” the paper wrote in an editorial note. “We demand of the competent authorities the investigation of these criminal acts.”
The state prosecutor’s office said that its homicide department would investigate the crime.
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LATEST VICTIM. Journalist Mario Gomez was shot by gunmen on Friday, September 21.
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