(MENAFN) Officials posted that a Mexican journalist under government protection was murdered during a clash in the state of Veracruz.
Furthermore, the victim Candido Rios, a crime reporter for a local firm, was shot dead outside a convenience store in the eastern town of Hueyapan de Ocampo amid another 2, according to the police sources.
Never the less, head of the State Commission for the Protection of Journalists said the journalist Rios had been under a government program which planned to secure journalists and rights activists from such things.
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