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Kidnapped reporter found dead in Mexico
The tortured body of a Mexican police reporter has been found on the side of a road in the northern state of Sonora on Friday. A day earlier he had been kidnapped by gunmen while waiting at a car wash.
Marco Antonio Avila Garcia's body was found inside a black plastic bag near the city of Empalme, about 68 miles south of Ciudad Obregon where he was abducted, said Sonora state prosecutors' spokesman Jose Larrinaga.
Larrinaga said police found a message signed by a cartel but would not reveal its content.
The 39-year-old reporter often wrote about organised crime for the sister newspapers Diario Sonora de la Tarde and El Regional of Ciudad Obregon, said Larrinaga. ................(more)
The complete piece is at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/19/kidnapped-reporter-found-dead-mexico
