2 community radio hosts shot, killed in southern Mexico
ASSOCIATED PRESS

5:26 p.m. April 8, 2008

OAXACA, Mexico – Police said Tuesday that they are investigating the killings of two Indian activists who worked for a community radio station in southern Mexico.
Felicitas Martinez, 20, and Teresa Bautista, 24, were traveling in a rural part of Oaxaca state when gunmen opened fire on their car late Monday. The gunfire killed the two and wounded three others in the vehicle, including a three-year-old child, the Oaxaca attorney general's office said in a statement,

The office said the assailants used assault rifles in what it described as an ambush. No arrests have been made.

The two women hosted programs on a community radio station called “The Voice that Breaks the Silenceâ€