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Eugene

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Wed Nov 29, 2023, 02:43 PM Nov 2023

Five journalists were shot in one day in Mexico, officials confirm

Source: Associated Press

Five journalists were shot in one day in Mexico, officials confirm

Updated 11:30 AM EST, November 29, 2023

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s president said Wednesday that two of four news photographers who were shot Tuesday are in serious condition, as prosecutors confirmed that a fifth journalist was shot and wounded the same day.

The four photojournalists were shot near a military barracks in the southern Guerrero state after they returned from a crime scene. They had been covering one of the many homicides that occur on a near-daily basis in the violence-wracked city of Chilpancingo.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said “we must regret this,” referring to the shooting, but did not offer any information on a possible motive in the attack.

Another shooting Tuesday in the neighboring state of Michoacan wounded reporter Maynor Ramón Ramírez, bringing the number of victims to five and marking one of the largest one-day tolls of media workers in a decade.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/article/mexico-five-journalists-shot-88c529dd11851a0472517f437f71ac04

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Five journalists were shot in one day in Mexico, officials confirm (Original Post) Eugene Nov 2023 OP
What's amazing is that there's still some journalists remaining to report it. nt Xipe Totec Nov 2023 #1
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