Mexican news director shot dead weeks after colleague's murder
Rubén Pat killed at Playa del Carmen beach resort
Publication calls on governor to tackle spate of violence in state
David Agren in Mexico City
@el_reportero
Tue 24 Jul 2018 15.08 EDT
The director of a Mexican news website has been shot dead in the beach resort of Playa del Carmen, the second employee of the publication to have been killed in less than a month.
Rubén Pat, the director of the online outlet Semanario Playa News, was shot dead at around 5.48am on Tuesday outside a bar in the city 65km south of Cancún.
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Pat was the sixth Mexican journalist believed to have been killed for his work in 2018. As is often the case in attacks on the country’s journalists, the immediate motive was not clear.
Last year, Pat complained that municipal officers had detained and beaten him after he published a story on a banner hung by a drug cartel accusing the police of acting in cahoots with a rival cartel.
More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/24/ruben-pat-death-mexico-journalists-killing-playa-del-carmen
Rubén Pat
Rest in Peace.
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