'World's most dangerous countries for journalists': Another journalist killed in Mexico, the fifth this year
Mexico Journalists
Ajournalistwas shot dead Thursday inMexico, an official said, thefifthsuch killing thisyearin a country notoriously dangerous for reporters.
Heber Lopez Vazquez, who ran a news website called Noticias Web in the southern state of Oaxaca, was shot in his car, state prosecutor Arturo Calvo told the TV channel Milenio.
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Two suspects were arrested as they tried to flee the scene of the crime and their guns were recovered, Calvo said, adding it was not known who ordered the killing.
Lopez's death brings the number of journalistskilledinMexicothisyearto five, according to an AFP tally based on data from press freedom advocacy organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF).
Mexicois considered one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists.
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At least seven were murdered lastyear, according to RSF, although it is not known whether in all of those cases the killing was linked to their work.
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Mexican authorities said Wednesday that three men had been arrested over the murder ofjournalistLourdes Maldonado, whose killing last monthin Tijuana sparked international condemnation and calls for the government to do more to protect media workers. Her death came in the wake of the shooting of photographer Margarito Martinez in Tijuana. Roberto Toledo, who worked with a news site in the central state of Michoacan, as well as Jose Luis Gamboa, ajournalistand social media activist in eastern Veracruz state, were alsokilledin January.
