Journalist kidnapped in northern Mexico

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Journalist kidnapped in northern Mexico

2011-08-25 09:08:02 GMT+7 (ICT)

CULIACÁN, MÉXICO (BNO NEWS) -- Mexican journalist Humberto Millán Salazar was kidnapped by unidentified gunmen in the northern Mexican state of Sinaloa on early Wednesday morning, officials said.

Millán, editor of the online newspaper "A discusión" and news presenter of a local radio show on national media, Radio Fórmula, was intercepted by armed men in pick-up trucks when he was driving from his house to the studios of Radio Formula at around 6.15 a.m. local time.

Millán's brother was riding with him at the time of the abduction but was later released by the kidnappers, officials said. Mexican authorities have begun a search operation to find the journalist who reportedly avoided working on organized crime issues.

The disappearance of Millán Salazar comes less than a month after Yolanda Ordaz de la Cruz, a crime reporter and columnist for the regional daily Notiver in the east-coast port city of Veracruz, was found with her throat slit after being abducted 48 hours earlier.

According to the International Press Institute, seven Mexican journalists have been murdered since the start of 2011, which makes Mexico the second most dangerous country in the world for journalists this year. Only Iraq, with eight, has seen more journalists' deaths in 2011.

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