Journalist killed in Mexico: reports

AFP  |  Villahermosa (Mexico) 

A was murdered Tuesday in southeast Mexico, her former employer and other outlets reported.

Sarabia is the sixth slain this year in

is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for reporters: more than 100 have been murdered here since 2000, amid a wave of linked to drug trafficking and political corruption.

The vast majority of those killings remain unpunished.

ranks the country as the third most dangerous in the world for the press, after war-torn and

In May, was murdered in a resort town on Mexico's after receiving threats.

Romero, who was enrolled in the Mexican government's protection program for and human rights activists, was found dead in a pool of blood in his hometown of Playa del Carmen.

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First Published: Wed, June 12 2019. 11:25 IST