PhotoAssassins on a motorcycle shot Cecilio Pineda Birto as he awaited his vehicle at a car wash, hitting him at least 10 times. Gunmen blocked the car of Javier Valdez Cárdenas after he left work, pumping at least 12 bullets into him. Miroslava Breach Velducea, leaving home with one of her children, was shot eight times by an unidentified assailant and died en route to the hospital. The total was a record for Mexico and made that country the deadliest for journalists this year outside of a conflict zone, the group said, and the third deadliest after Iraq and Syria. The group, which keeps extensive databases on killed, imprisoned and missing journalists around the world, is investigating at least three other journalist killings in Mexico this year that may have been related to the work of the victims.

Source: New York Times December 21, 2017 04:52 UTC