In Mexico, a journalist, an employee of an online publication, was killed by unknown people

Journalist Pablo Morrugares was killed by unknown people in southwestern Mexico. This was announced on August 2 by the press service of the regional commission on human rights on Facebook. Morrugares, who was an employee of the PM Noticias online publication, died from gunshot wounds in a restaurant in Iguala in Guerrero. Possible motives, as well as the circumstances of the murder of the journalist are not reported. Officers of the human rights commission asked the Prosecutor General's Office to conduct a thorough investigation into the incident and find those responsible for the death of the journalist. Pablo Morrugares became the fourth journalist since the beginning of this year to die in Mexico. In total, since the beginning of 2000, more than 150 employees of various media have died in the country. Earlier, the news agency reported on the circumstances of the murder of Diario de Xalapa, Heraldo de Poza Rica and Quinto Poder journalist Maria Elena Ferral, who was killed by unknown attackers in the state of Veracruz in eastern Mexico.