Seventh journalist killed this year in Mexico as scrutiny mounts


  • World
  • Wednesday, 16 Mar 2022

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The director of a media outlet in a gang-plagued state in western Mexico was shot and killed Tuesday, authorities said, marking the seventh death of a media worker this year in bloodshed that has stirred international concern.

Armando Linares, director of Monitor Michoacan, was shot dead at a house in the city of Zitacuaro in the state of Michoacan, the state attorney general's office said.

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