Journalist Shot Dead in Violent Mexican State

Journalist Shot Dead in Violent Mexican State
Emergency officials stand outside a bar after gunmen shot dead a journalist early on Sunday in the Mexican city of Iguala in the southwestern state of Guerrero, according to local authorities on Aug. 2, 2020. GRISEL TAPIA FLORES/via REUTERS
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ACAPULCO, Mexico—Gunmen shot dead a journalist early on Sunday in the Mexican city of Iguala in the southwestern state of Guerrero, local authorities said, in what was at least the fourth murder of a reporter in the country this year.

Pablo Morrugares of news website PM Noticias had gone to dine in an Iguala restaurant in the company of a police bodyguard when the unidentified assailants opened fire on them after midnight, Guerrero state prosecutors said in a statement.