CIUDAD JUAREZ: Gunmen shot and killed a news photographer and seriously wounded another in a parking lot in Mexico’s most dangerous city of Ciudad Juarez, on the US border, their newspaper reported yesterday.
Unidentified gunmen shot dead 21-year-old Luis Carlos Santiago, who worked for El Diario de Juarez daily, and seriously hurt a colleague from the same newspaper inside a car in a parking lot, local journalists said.
The wounded man, Carlos Sanchez, was in a serious condition in hospital.
It was unclear if the photographers had been working at the time of the attack.
Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, according to rights groups.
More than 30 journalists have been killed or gone missing as violence has surged since President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown on organized crime in 2006, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Some 28,000 people are believed to have died in drug gang-related attacks since then, including more than 2,000 deaths in Ciudad Juarez alone this year.
Another journalist from El Diario de Juarez, Armando Rodriguez, was murdered in front of his home as he got in his car to drive his daughter to school in November 2008. -- AFP
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead 21-year-old Luis Carlos Santiago, who worked for El Diario de Juarez daily, and seriously hurt a colleague from the same newspaper inside a car in a parking lot, local journalists said.
The wounded man, Carlos Sanchez, was in a serious condition in hospital.
It was unclear if the photographers had been working at the time of the attack.
Mexico is one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists, according to rights groups.
More than 30 journalists have been killed or gone missing as violence has surged since President Felipe Calderon launched a military crackdown on organized crime in 2006, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
Some 28,000 people are believed to have died in drug gang-related attacks since then, including more than 2,000 deaths in Ciudad Juarez alone this year.
Another journalist from El Diario de Juarez, Armando Rodriguez, was murdered in front of his home as he got in his car to drive his daughter to school in November 2008. -- AFP
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