Reynaldo Paz

The 48-year-old editor of Canal 28 Television was gunned down by armed men who attacked him at a sports centre in the town of Comayagua. Reports said that unidentified attackers moved in on him as he was working out and shot him several times as he ran to his vehicle to escape.

The local newspaper El Tiempo said that according to police investigations Paz was believed to have been killed “for having used his media outlet to make statements about the current situation in the country.”

Source: IAPA

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