Another journalist killed in Mexico

COATZACOALCOS, Mexico: A Mexican journalist was shot dead in front of his wife and two children outside his home in a crime-ridden eastern state where 18 other reporters have been murdered since 2010.

Pedro Tamayo Rosas, a 45-year-old who covered the police beat for two online dailies in Veracruz state, was killed late on Wednesday in the town of Tierra Blanca, prosecutors said.

The preliminary investigation indicates "there were two assailants who approached Tamayo to greet him at a business in his home," the Veracruz prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

A family member said on condition of anonymity that Tamayo had come out to help his wife and children man a food stand when he was killed.