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Journalist murdered in Mexico, eighth this year: official

AFP WORLD
Published March 16,2022
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Armando Linares, the director of the news site Monitor Michoacan, was murdered Tuesday in western Mexico, the state prosecutor's office said -- his death marks the eighth killing of a media worker in the country so far in 2022.

In a statement, the Michoacan prosecutor's office said Linares was murdered "this afternoon in a private home."