Peru: Journalist who reported on extortion shot dead, prosecutor’s office bombed

Source: CBS News

“A journalist who reported on Peru’s extortion epidemic was shot dead on Monday and two people were injured in a separate bomb attack on a prosecutor’s office that also investigates racketeering, authorities said. Gaston Medina, the owner and editor of a regional TV channel, was gunned down as he was leaving his house in the south-central city of Ica, the country’s National Association of Journalists (ANP) said in a statement. … In a separate attack Monday in the northwestern city of Trujillo, the epicenter of the extortion epidemic, two people were injured when a bomb exploded outside the prosecutor’s office.” (01/21/25)

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