Journalist of Channel Six of Honduras murdered

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Streets of Santa Rosa de Copán, city where the journalist Edgar Aguilar, of Canal Six was killed. (Credit: ORLANDO SIERRA / AFP / Getty Images)

(CNN Spanish) - Journalist Edgar Joel Aguilar was killed in Honduras on Saturday, police authorities reported.

Preliminary investigations indicate that Aguilar was inside a barbershop when several subjects entered it and, without words, shot him
to the social communicator, taking his life immediately.

The journalist worked as a correspondent for Canal Six, whose headquarters are located in the city of San Pedro Sula, north of Tegucigalpa. It is one of the media with influence at the national level.

The police say they have started an investigative process in the city of Santa Rosa de Copán, in western Honduras, where the incident happened, to find the murders of the journalist.

According to his co-workers, Edgar Aguilar had already repeated death threats and an attempt on his life. Although he had requested security measures, they were not provided.

Police authorities say they investigate whether, indeed, Aguilar would have asked for protection because he feared for his life, to deduce the responsibility from whom
I would have denied him security.

Julio Velásquez, spokesman for the National Commissioner for Human Rights in Honduras, told CNN that from 2001 to date, 79 people among journalists and workers from
The media have been killed in the Central American country.

In this year alone, said the spokesman for the Ombudsman's Office, three journalists have already been killed.

Honduras, according to several international human rights organizations, is one of the countries in the world where the profession of journalism is dangerous.

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