Two reporters killed in a row in Mexico, the world's most dangerous country outside the battlefield (The Associated Press) --Yahoo! News

Tijuana, Mexico, January 18 (AP) -Two journalists were killed a week in Mexico, the world's most dangerous interview site outside the battlefield for journalists. Margarito Martinez, a photographer from a local newspaper, was killed on January 17 in Tijuana, a tourist destination in Baja California, the northernmost part of the country. Martinez was famous for taking pictures of crime scenes in Tijuana, where violence is rampant. Police handed Martinez a cell phone a few days before the killing to contact Martinez when he felt he was in danger, but there was no evidence of it being used. Journalist Jose Luis Gamboa, who wrote a criticism of the state's government, died in a local hospital in Veracruz along the Gulf of Mexico on the 10th, a week before Martinez's murder. bottom. Police seem to see it as a robbery, but Gamboa's family was notified four days after his death. Forty-eight journalists have been killed in Mexico between December 2018 and last year, making Martinez and Gamboa the first victims in 2022. (Japanese translation / editing Afro)