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“An armed attack has been confirmed that took the life of Jorge Armenta,” director of digital media outlet Medios Obson, the regional prosecutor’s office said on Twitter. Journalist MediosObson JorgeArmenta Mexican

Mexican journalist Jorge Armenta was killed Saturday in Ciudad Obregon in the country’s north, making him the third journalist slain in Mexico so far this year, authorities said.

A municipal police officer was also killed and a second officer was wounded, it added, without providing further details on the attack. RSF, which said Armenta was the third journalist killed this year, is investigating the type of protection he had.Sonora state governor Claudia Pavlovich Arellano said on Twitter she had directed the prosecutor to “immediately begin an investigation to establish and find those responsible for the reprehensible attack.”

Violence linked to drug trafficking and political corruption is rampant, and many murders go unpunished.

 

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