Journalist who reported on extortion shot dead, prosecutor's office bombed in Peru

A journalist who reported on Peru's extortion epidemic was shot dead on Monday and two people were injured in a separate bomb attack on a prosecutor's office that also investigates racketeering, authorities  said.

Gaston Medina, the owner and editor of a regional TV channel, was gunned down as he was leaving his house in the south-central city of Ica, the country's National Association of Journalists (ANP) said in a statement.

He was shot multiple times by gunmen and declared dead on his arrival at hospital, the ANP added.