By Ingrid Bachmann
Reporter Elisa Mejías and photojournalist Miguel Carrera, both of the newspaper La Prensa of Barquisimeto, died over the weekend when the car in which they were traveling overturned while they were being closely followed by another vehicle whose occupants presumably wanted to rob them, La Prensa and El Informador report. Two other journalists from the same newspaper were seriously wounded.
Police have not found the car that is believed to have caused the accident, although they have good clues about its location and about the person who was driving it the night of the accident, El Carabobeño says.
Journalists organizations have urged authorities to solve the case and punish those responsible, El Universal adds.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
