Honduras TV presenter murdered

Honduran TV presenter Noel Alexander Valladares was killed alongside two other people when they came under a hail of gunfire as they drove away from the studios of Maya TV in the capital, Tegucigalpa. Valladares, 28, and popularly known as "El Tecolote" (The owl), died his along with his uncle, Renán Adonis Valladares Escoto, and his bodyguard, Marcos Adrián Gutiérrez Andrade. Valladares's wife and co-presenter, Nelly Yorleny Pavón, was wounded. She told police there were four attackers wearing ski masks. Valladares is the third journalist to be killed in Honduras this year and, according to the International Press Institute's "death watch", 21 journalists have been killed in Honduras since the beginning of July 2009. Source: IPI