Gunmen kill 2 Mexican journalists in separate attacks

Mexican security operatives have confirmed the killing of no less than two journalists in two separate attacks.

The first attack witnessed the killing of Pat Cauich, the chief of Playa News Aqui y Ahora, a Facebook-based online news site who was shot dead on Tuesday in a southeastern resort town on Mexico’s coast.

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Pat Cauich was the second Playa News journalist killed in less than a month after his colleague, Jose Guadalupe Chan Dzib, was shot dead on June 29.

“Municipal police have made contact with staff from the attorney-general’s office in order to carry out relevant investigations,” authorities said in a statement.

The murder of Ruben Pat Cauich and Luis Perez Garcia has now increases the number of slain media workers to eight in 2018.

 

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