Explosion rocks human rights commission in Mexico
A blast has targeted the headquarters of Mexico's National Human Rights Commission, with no injuries immediately reported.
The organization's director Luis Raul Gonzalez Perez said on Thursday that the explosion occurred in Ecatepec, outside the capital, Mexico City.
Slamming the bomb attack, he urged Mexican officials to start a "prompt investigation into the facts, and punish those responsible."
The blast comes as two journalists were killed on Thursday across the crime-ridden country.
The first journalist, identified as Filadelfo Sanchez Sarmiento, was shot dead by two attackers as he was leaving the radio station he was working for in Miahuatlan, southern Oaxaca State, authorities said.
"Mexican authorities must thoroughly investigate this killing and establish a motive -- including any possible connection to journalism -- and bring those responsible to justice," said Carlos Lauria, the Americas Program director of the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists.
Denouncing Mexico as having “one of the worst impunity rates in the world,” Lauria stressed that the killing of the journalist “must not become one of dozens of unsolved journalist murders” in the country.
Since April, two other journalists were also killed in Oaxaca.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, a blogger was killed in the eastern state of Veracruz. However, details about how he died are not available.
According to the State Commission for the Protection and Attention of Journalists, the death of Juan Mendoza Delgado, whose body was discovered on Wednesday, was termed "homicide."
He was director of "Writing the Truth" website and had previously worked as a crime reporter at a local newspaper.
Veracruz has a horrific record in killing journalists, as Mendoza Delgado’s death is the 13th case in the state since 2010.
Mexico, which grapples with a deadly drug war, is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists.
Reporters Without Borders say over 80 media workers have been killed and another 17 reported missing in the past decade in the country.
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