BOGOTÁ — Gunmen on a motorbike shot dead a
Colombian journalist, local authorities said Tuesday, the latest killing in the
country which has seen a rise in murders of reporters.
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The prosecutor’s office wrote on Twitter that it had
“learned of the death of the journalist and social leader Wilder Alfredo
Cordoba” in the southwestern town of La Union.
La Union Mayor Fabian Echeverria told AFP that
gunmen on the back of a motorbike had shot Cordoba, who was “around 40 years
old,” three times as he traveled in a rural area on Monday afternoon.
Cordoba was the
director of a local television channel who “published information criticizing
local government and about insecurity in the region on his Facebook page,” the
Colombian Foundation for Press Freedom (FLIP) wrote on Twitter.
The organization urged authorities to look into
Cordoba’s journalistic work “in connection with his murder”.
Echeverria has offered a reward of $4,000 “for
information leading to the identification and arrest” of those responsible.
The prosecutor’s office said they had dispatched
investigators to the crime scene.
According to FLIP, violence against journalists in
the country has been on the rise, with nearly 770 falling victim to some form
of aggression in 2021.
The International Press Institute said it was
“alarmed and deeply saddened” by the fourth killing of a journalist in Colombia
since August.
In October, a journalist was killed in a similar
fashion by gunmen on a motorbike in the northern municipality of Montelibano.
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