Reuters reports that two human rights workers were shot and killed in an ambush in southern Mexico as they tried to deliver food and supplies to a town being harassed by armed groups.
"Beatriz Carino, the Mexican director of the rights group CACTUS, and Finnish human rights observer Jyri Antero Jaakkola died when gunmen attacked a convoy of some 30 rights workers on Tuesday, local attorney general Maria de la Luz Candelaria said.
The convoy was headed to San Juan Copala in the impoverished state of Oaxaca, where tensions have been building between towns of indigenous Triqui people."
Reports Reuters.
"The caravan was traveling on bad roads in the mountains. There was a barricade of rocks that forced the cars off the road. They were ambushed and shot at with automatic weapons," said David Castillo, a representative of CACTUS in Mexico City.
Two journalists from a local magazine covering the convoy were also missing.