Two more journalists slain in Mexico, bringing 2022 total to 11 – By Olafimihan Oshin (The Hill) / May 9, 2022
Two more Mexican-based journalists have been killed in the country by unidentified assailants, bringing the total number of journalists killed there this year to 11.
The Guardian reported that journalists Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera were murdered Monday afternoon in the town of Cosoleacaque. Initial reports said the reporting duo was killed inside their vehicle while waiting outside a nearby convenience store.
Mollinedo and Olivera were both employees of the local publication El Veraz, with Mollinedo serving as El Veraz’s director, The Guardian noted.
In a statement on Twitter, Veracruz’s state attorney general’s office said it plans to launch an investigation into the journalists’ deaths, saying it will “establish the causes and find the person or persons responsible for it.”
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