El Salmantino online daily newspaper on Tuesday confirmed the death of its journalist who was gunned down while covering a news story in the city of Salamanca.
The Mexican journalist Israel Vazquez was gunned down on Monday and died in hospital several hours later.
The 31-year-old is the third reporter to be killed in Mexico in less than a month. He was attacked as he arrived to collect information about the discovery of a dismembered corpse, the newspaper El Sol de Mexico quoted police as saying.
Apparently those responsible for the crime were still on the scene when Vasquez arrived.
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