Daily newspaper reporter Carlos Alberto Guajardo Romero was killed on Friday during crossfire between the Mexican army and gunmen in the border city of Matamoros.
His death occurred while he was witnessing a shoot-out that led to the killing of drug cartel leader Antonio Ezequiel Cárdenas Guillén, four other gang members and three soldiers.
The Expreso Matamoros reporter was said to have been shot at least 20 times. It is thought that soldiers fired at his unmarked truck after mistaking him as a cartel member.
Guajardo Romero, 37, was the tenth journalist to be killed in the Mexico in 2010, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Source: CPJ
