Three journalists have been killed in Mexico in the last week, according to authorities.

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(CNN) --

Two journalists were killed Monday in the Mexican state of Veracruz, according to the state prosecutor's office, which said it has launched an investigation into the killings.

The prosecution said on Twitter that the director of the news website El Veraz, Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi, and the reporter Sheila Johana García Olivera were murdered in the municipality of Cosoleacaque on Monday, adding that they were following all lines of investigation, including the journalistic activities of the victims, to determine the motive for the murders.

"We will find the authors of this crime, there will be justice and there will be no impunity as we have said and done in other cases," Veracruz Governor Cuitláhuac García tweeted, calling the murders a "homicide."

This comes after another journalist was killed on Thursday in the state of Sinaloa, according to the state prosecutor's office.

"Unfortunately, it is confirmed that the body found on a road on the El Ranchito highway is that of journalist Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos," Sinaloa prosecutor Sara Quiñonez tweeted.

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• Journalist Luis Ramírez is murdered in Mexico: it is the seventh so far in 2022, according to the Government

"Our sincere condolences to his family and our commitment to work to clarify this fact," the tweet read.

Ramírez was a columnist and founder of the news portal ''Fuentes Fidedignas''.

The media outlet reported that he was killed on Thursday afternoon and said that his body was located after being kidnapped in an area near his home.

It is unknown if Ramírez's murder was related to his professional activities.

The latest deaths bring the number of journalists killed in Mexico in 2022 to at least 9, according to a CNN tally.

The journalists are Yessenia Mollinedo Falconi, Sheila Johana García Olivera, Luis Enrique Ramírez Ramos, José Luis Gamboa Arenas, Margarito Martínez Esquivel, Lourdes Maldonado, Heber López Vásquez, Armando Linares and Juan Carlos Muñiz.

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