Quagmire!Mexico City - Three co-workers at a newspaper were shot and killed on Monday in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, according to police.
The three journalists with the daily El Imparcial were in their car 220 kilometres south of Oaxaca when they were attacked by a group of armed men.
The director of El Imparcial had been receiving death threats for the past several weeks.
Mexico belongs to the world's most dangerous countries for journalists with 30 journalists killed since 2000.