Another journalist has been killed in Mexico, the prosecutor’s office in the southern state of Guerrero confirmed Tuesday.
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Fredid Roman was shot dead in the city of Chilpancingo, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Attackers fired at him from a motorbike, local media reported.
Roman worked as a journalist for more than 35 years and more recently wrote columns about education and politics.
He was previously the director of a newspaper he founded called La Realidad, which was no longer published.
This year has already been noted as one of the deadliest for media representatives in Mexico.
Less than a week ago, a journalist, Juan Arjon was killed in the country’s northwest.
The media organisation Article 19 has counted at least 14 deaths in 2022 – a record number for a single year.
Mexico was ranked as the most dangerous country in the world for journalists in 2021 for the third year in a row by Reporters Without Borders.
Seven deaths were counted that year. Drug cartels or corrupt local politicians were often behind the killings
