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Tom Phillips and Emilio Espejel in Mexico City

Two slain in Mexico are the latest in unrelenting slaughter of journalists

Men and women stand in a plaza holding signs in protest of the attacks on journalists.
Journalists protest in Oaxaca, Mexico, on 14 February against the killing of their colleague days earlier. Two more journalists have been killed, taking the death toll this year to 11. Photograph: Daniel Ricardez/EPA

The unrelenting slaughter of Mexican journalists has continued after two more newspeople were gunned down by unidentified assassins – taking the 2022 death toll to 11 in what is the deadliest country for media professionals outside a warzone.

Yesenia Mollinedo Falconi and Sheila Johana García Olivera were murdered in the town of Cosoleacaque, about 350 miles east of the capital Mexico City, around 3pm on Monday.

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