18th journalist killed in Honduras in past two years [View all]

[Judi Lynn]

18th journalist killed in Honduras in past two years
AFP
March 12, 2012, 2:04 pm

TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) - A 54-year-old Honduran journalist was killed by a machete-wielding attacker, police said Sunday, in the 18th fatal attack on a member of the news media in the past two years.

Police said Fausto Evelio Hernandez, was riding his bicycle on his way home Saturday when he was attacked in Saba, some 600 kilometers (400 miles) north of the capital.

Deputy police commissioner Osmin Bardales told AFP that the journalist, who was an on-air announced for Radio Alegre, "tried to put his arm out (to defend himself) against the first machete blow and had it nearly severed."

The attacker then let loose with nine fierce machete blows to the victim's head, the police official said.

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