Guatemalan reporter killed, mob burns police station
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October 3, 2026
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GUATEMALA CITY, Guatemala (AFP) — A Guatemalan journalist was shot and killed in an attack that sparked unrest, leaving a police station in an Indigenous town in flames, police and local media said Saturday.
Evelio Lopez was killed late Friday in the Mam Maya village of San Pedro Necta in western Guatemala, the local press association of Huehuetenango province said.
The motive of the killing was not immediately known.
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