MEXICO CITY – A community activist was murdered by gunmen while broadcasting a radio show in Mazatlan, a port city in the northwestern Mexican state of Sinaloa, media reports said Sunday.Atilano Roman was murdered on Saturday while he was on the air.
The gunmen shot the community activist, who was transported to a hospital and died while being treated by doctors.
Roman led the protests by residents displaced by the Picachos dam project, which was inaugurated by former President Felipe Calderon’s administration in 2012.
The protesters blocked roads in Mazatlan’s tourist district.
The Sinaloa Attorney General’s Office has opened an investigation and is trying to determine who was behind the killing.
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