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Mexico confirms 5 journalists shot in 1 day

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Mexico’s president said Wednesday that two of four news photographers who were shot Tuesday are in serious condition, as prosecutors confirmed that a fifth journalist was shot and wounded the same day.

The four photojournalists were shot near a military barracks in the southern Guerrero state after they returned from a crime scene. They had been covering one of the many homicides that occur on a near-daily basis in the violence-wracked city of Chilpancingo.

President Andrés Manuel López Obrador said “we must regret this,” referring to the shooting, but did not offer any information on a possible motive in the attack.

4 NEWS PHOTOGRAPHERS SHOT, WOUNDED IN SOUTHERN MEXICO

Another shooting Tuesday in the neighboring state of Michoacan wounded reporter Maynor Ramón Ramírez, bringing the number of victims to five and marking one of the largest one-day tolls of media workers in a decade.

Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador at podium

Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador is photographed during the North American Leaders Summit in Mexico City, Mexico, on Tuesday. Jan. 10, 2023. ( Photographer: Alejandro Cegarra/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Ramírez suffered several gunshot wounds along with a companion in the city of Apatzingan, the newspaper ABC of Michoacan said,

The attacks came days after three journalists were abducted and held for days in Taxco, also in Guerrero state. They were later released, and there was no information on the motive for their abduction.

NEWS PHOTOGRAPHER SHOT DEAD IN CARTEL-DOMINATED MEXICAN BORDER HUB

Guerrero has been the scene of deadly turf battles between around a dozen drug gangs and cartels. Michoacan has suffered similar turf battles between the Jalisco cartel and local gangs.

The shootings and abductions on Tuesday mark some of the largest mass attacks on reporters in one place in Mexico since one day in early 2012, when the bodies of three news photographers were found dumped in plastic bags in a canal in the Gulf coast city of Veracruz. Those killings were blamed on the once-powerful Zetas drug cartel.

Earlier this month, a photographer for a newspaper in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez was found shot to death in his car. His death was the fifth instance of a journalist being killed in Mexico so far in 2023.

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In the past five years alone, the Committee to Protect Journalists documented the killings of at least 54 journalists in Mexico.

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