Five Mexican journalists shot and injured in one day as violence deepens

Four photojournalists shot in Guerrero state and reporter in Michoacán, where battles between cartels and local gangs rage

Five Mexican journalists have been shot and wounded in a single day, in the worst day of violence against the country’s press in more than 10 years.

In one of the attacks on Tuesday, 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 city of Chilpancingo. State prosecutors said they consider it a case of attempted murder.

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