Almost 70 Reporters Killed Worldwide In 2011: RSF -- Reuters(Reuters) - Sixty-six journalists were killed worldwide in 2011, many of them covering Arab revolutions, gang crime in Mexico or political turmoil in Pakistan, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Thursday.
Ten journalists were killed in Pakistan, most of them murdered, making it the most dangerous country for news coverage for the second year running.
With pro-democracy demonstrations prompting violent reprisals from Arab governments, the number of reporters killed in the Middle East doubled to 20 this year.
A similar number were killed in Latin America, where criminal violence was rife, the Paris-based RSF said in a statement.
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My Comment: Sobering statistics for those whose job is to report on what they see.
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