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Agence France-Presse

Police in Mexico found the burned remains of a journalist who was kidnapped in May, the sixth reporter killed this year in the country, a state prosecutor said on Monday.
“DNA samples have confirmed that these remains are those of Salvador Adame,” said the public prosecutor for the central state of Michoacan, Jose Martin Godoy.
Police and soldiers found the body on June 14 near a highway between the towns of Lombardia and Nueva Italia, Godoy told a news conference.
Adame was the owner of a local television channel. He was kidnapped on May 19 in Nueva Italia in a region hard hit by Mexico’s epidemic of gang violence.

Two days earlier, Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto had vowed to strengthen protections for journalists and prosecute those who attack them.
That announcement was in response to the killing of the last victim, award-winning crime reporter Javier Valdez in the northern state of Sinaloa.
Mexican journalist famous for writing about organised crime is shot dead in the street
Like four other journalists killed in Mexico earlier this year, Valdez had been reporting on powerful drug gangs and government corruption.
Media rights group Reporters Without Borders ranks Mexico as the third most deadly country for journalists in the world, after the war zones of Syria and Afghanistan.


Burned remains of abducted journalist found in Mexico in sixth killing of a reporter in the country

Frida Urtiz, wife of reporter Salvador Adame Pardo, speaks to the media during a protest against the May 18 disappearance of her husband. His burned remains have been identified by the authorities. Photo: Reuters

Handout picture released by the Michoacan State General Attorney of Justice's office, showing Michoacan State Michoacan State General Attorney of Justice Jose Martin Godoy Castro (C), annonuncing the death of Mexican journalist Salvador Adame Pardo following his kidnap last month, during a press conference in Morelia, Michoacan State, Mexico, on June 26, 2017. Godoy confirmed that DNA samples of burned remains found on June 14 where those of Adame, who was kidnapped on May 18. Adame is the sixth reporter killed this year in the country, a state prosecutor said Monday. / AFP PHOTO / Michoacan State General Attorney of Justice / HO / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / MICHOACAN STATE GENERAL ATTORNEY OF JUSTICE" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

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