A newspaper delivery worker from a Mexican publication in the country’s cartel stronghold of Sinaloa was kidnapped on Saturday, the newspaper said, two days after shots were fired at its offices.
It is the latest of attacks in Sinaloa state — the bastion of jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman and his sons — where almost 200 people have been murdered since early September.
Unknown assailants kidnapped the man at dawn when he was about to deliver copies of the newspaper.
He was “pulled from his motorcycle by people in a car” and “was deprived of his freedom,” El Debate said in a post on X.
Freedom of expression non profit organization ArtÃculo 19 called on Mexican federal and state authorities to “coordinate urgently” to locate the worker “alive”.
On Thursday gunmen opened fire on the El Debate newspaper offices in the state capital of Culiacan.
Rampant cartel-related violence makes Mexico one of the world’s most dangerous countries for journalists.
More than 150 members of the media have been killed in the Latin American nation since 2000, according to rights group Reporters Without Borders.
