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A journalist has been shot dead in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca, the fifth killed in the country this year, state authorities said.
Heber López, director of the online news site Noticias Web, was killed leaving a recording studio in the port city of Salina Cruz, said an official with the Oaxaca state security agency, who requested anonymity.
Oaxaca state prosecutor, Arturo Peimbert Calvo, told Milenio TV that two suspects in the killing were in custody.
López’s murder follows those of four journalists in January.
On 31 January, Roberto Toledo, a camera operator and video editor for the online site Monitor Michoacan, was shot by assailants as he prepared for an interview in Zitacuaro, Michoacan.
In the border city of Tijuana, reporter Lourdes Maldonado López was found shot to death inside her car on 23 January, and six days earlier crime photographer Margarito Martínez was gunned down outside his home in the same city.
Reporter José Luis Gamboa was killed in the Gulf coast state of Veracruz in an attack on 10 January.
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