Journalist Is Slain in Colombia, the Second in 2 Weeks
Gunmen on a motorcycle shot and killed the director of a provincial radio station Wednesday in one of Colombia’s leading drug-producing regions, officials and colleagues said.
The two gunmen shot 36-year-old Alfredo Abad as he departed for work at Voice of the Jungle. The station in Florencia, the capital of Caqueta province, is a local affiliate of Caracol Radio, one of Colombia’s national broadcast networks.
Abad was the second Voice of the Jungle journalist to die violently in the past two weeks. There was no immediate claim of responsibility, but a range of violent groups operates in Caqueta, including guerrillas, drug traffickers and right-wing paramilitary groups who battle the rebels.
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