Mafaldo Bezerra Gois

February 22

The 51 year-old journalist for Radio Jaguaribe FM, was shot dead by men on motorbike as he was walking to work, media reports said. He was hit twice in the head and three times in the chest, police said.

Gois, a popular host of a daily political talk show programme where he regularly denounced corruption, had reportedly received threats from anonymous callers. Source: Al Jazeera

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