Another journalist slain in Mexico -- the 4th this month
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An online news outlet in Mexico says one of its reporters has been shot to death — the fourth journalist to be killed in the country in less than a month
MEXICO CITY -- An online news outlet in Mexico said Monday that one of its reporters was shot to death, the fourth journalist to be killed in the country in less than a month.
Armando Linares, director of the local website Monitor Michoacán, said three assailants fatally shot reporter Roberto Toledo in the city of Zitacuaro. Prosecutors in the western state of Michoacan said they were investigating the report.
Linares said the website had received threats for reporting on governmental corruption.
“For exposing corrupt administrations and corrupt officials and politicians, today that led to to death of one of our colleagues,” said Linares. “There people came up to him and shot him.”
