La Jornada newspaper says two of its employees were among the seven accosted while covering a security operation in San Miguel Totolapan yesterday.
La Jornada says they were traveling in two SUVs when they were intercepted by the gunmen and relieved of cameras, cellphones, personal effects and one of the vehicles. The attackers roughed up some of the journalists and threatened to burn them and the SUVs before letting them leave in the second vehicle.