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Mexican activist who documented murders is killed

AN ACTIVIST who documented murders in one of Mexico’s deadliest cities has himself been killed, authorities confirmed on Wednesday.

Adolfo Enriquez was killed in the city of Leon, in north-central Guanajuato state, a city with the third-highest number of homicides in Mexico, trailing only the border cities of Tijuana and Ciudad Juarez.

Mr Enriquez described himself on his social media profiles as an “activist, demanding a country with the rule of law.”

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