(ANSA) – MEXICO CITY, MAY 09 – Two Mexican journalists, Yesenia Mollinedo, and Sheila Johana García Olivera were killed yesterday in the State of Veraruz, bringing the toll of information workers who violently lost their lives in 2022 to eleven .
Molinedo, writes the newspaper El Financiero, was director of the portal ‘El Veraz a Veracruz’, while Garcia was one of the editors.
According to an initial police report, the two women were repeatedly hit with bullets in the municipality of Cosoleacaque in circumstances not yet fully understood.
Verónica Hernández Giadáns, Prosecutor General of Veracruz, assured that there will be no impunity in the case and that the investigation will follow every hypothesis to clarify what happened, and verify the relationship of deaths with journalistic activity.
The killings, the newspaper recalls, occurred a few hours after a protest demonstration against the wave of violence that caused the deaths of eleven journalists since the beginning of the year took place in the city center. (HANDLE).
Source: Ansa
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