Mexican journalist killed ninth consecutive for this year

According to foreign media, Ramirez Ramos's body was found on a muddy road wrapped in plastic near a waste site in Sinaloa's capital on Thursday.

Prosecutors said he died from multiple blows to the head.

“was undoubtedly a murder”, said Balbina Flores, a representative of the media rights group, Reporters Without Borders.

According to the group, Ramirez is the ninth journalist killed so far in Mexico, making the country more dangerous for media employees outside war zones.

The motive of the murder is not known at the moment, but the state of Sinaloa is the bastion of Sinaloa cartel of the notorious King of narcotics Joachim “El Chapo” Guzman.

Journalists are often at a point in provincial Mexico to expose drug cartels and their ties to local politicians and police.