Crime reporter assassinated

GUNMEN shot dead a veteran crime reporter in northeastern Mexico on Friday, his employers said, the fourth journalist to be murdered in the gangplagued country in six weeks.

Maximino Rodríguez Palacios was shot outside a store, the Colectivo Pericú news website said.

The state prosecutor’s office confirmed the 71-yearold’s murder “from gunshot wounds”, adding that investigators had collected shell casings that would be analysed in a laboratory.

Three other journalists covering organised crime in Mexico have been killed since March 3. — AFP