Two journalists shot dead in Guatemala, another wounded
Two journalists shot dead in Guatemala, another wounded
Bogotá, Colombia, March 11, 2015--Two gunmen shot dead two journalists and injured a third in Guatemala on Tuesday, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Guatemalan authorities to carry out a thorough investigation into the attack and ensure the perpetrators are held to account.
The assailants killed Danilo López, a reporter for the Guatemala City newspaper Prensa Libre, and Federico Salazar, a reporter for the Guatemala City station Radio Nuevo Mundo, while the journalists were walking in a park in Mazatenango, the capital of southwest Suchitepéquez department, according to press reports. The gunmen fled on a motorcycle.
A third journalist, Marvin Túnchez, a reporter for the local Canal 30 cable TV station, was also injured in the shooting, but was recovering from his wounds in a local hospital, his sister, Blanca Túnchez, told CPJ.
"Authorities must thoroughly investigate this attack and bring those responsible to justice," said Carlos Lauría, CPJ's senior program coordinator for the Americas, from New York. "Guatemala has a troubling pattern of impunity in attacks against journalists. If authorities allow these crimes to remain unsolved, all local journalists will face even more danger."
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