4 News Photographers Shot in Southern Mexico, a Case Authorities Consider Attempted Murder

MEXICO CITY—Unidentified assailants on Tuesday wounded four news photographers in the violence-wracked southern Mexican city of Chilpancingo, authorities said. Prosecutors in the Pacific coast state of Guerrero said all four had been taken to a hospital, but did not say whether their wounds were serious. All of the journalists appeared to work for local papers or news sites. State prosecutors said they consider it a case of attempted murder. The press group Reporters Without Borders said the attack occurred just outside the local army barracks, as the photographers were returning from covering an event. The shooting come just days after three journalists were abducted and held for days in Taxco, also in Guerrero state. They were later released, and there was no information on the motive for their abduction....