A Mexican reporter was gunned down in the northern state of Chihuahua on Thursday, becoming the third journalist to be killed this month in one of the most dangerous countries for media workers.
The national newspaper La Jornada said Miroslava Breach, its correspondent in the state capital, also called Chihuahua, was shot eight times outside her garage in the morning and died while being taken to the hospital.
La Jornada said Breach, 54, was accompanied in the car by one of her three children at the time of the attack.
“Presumably there was at least one attacker who approached on foot when the La Jornada correspondent was taking her son to school and fired a .38-caliber (gun),” it said. “Eight shells were found lying in the street.”
According to La Jornada, Breach had worked for the paper for more than 15 years and also for newspapers in the cities of Chihuahua and Juarez. It reported that a rolled-up cardboard message was left at the scene saying “for being a tattletale.”
In a statement, the Chihuahua state prosecutor’s office confirmed the killing and said it was investigating.