Reporter killed in Veracruz – the fifth murder of a journalist in Mexico this year

Jacinto Romero Flores had received threats after he reported on allegations of abuses by Veracruz police

A radio reporter in the Mexican Gulf coast state of Veracruz has been shot and killed, becoming at least the fifth Mexican journalist to be murdered in the country this year.

Jacinto Romero Flores, who covered politics and crime in the municipality of Zongolica, was shot dead in the township of Ixtaczoquitlan on Thursday.