Guatemalan journalist killed as mob burns police station

Guatemalan journalist Evelio Lopez was shot and killed in western Guatemala, and unrest after the attack left a police station in flames, police and local media said Saturday.

Lopez, 34, was killed late Friday in the Mam Maya village of San Pedro Necta, the local press association of Huehuetenango province said. He oversaw a Facebook news page called "Huehue es Noticias."

Police said people angered by the killing and demanding the arrest of a suspect burned the police station in San Pedro Necta and a house where an alleged suspect lived. The motive for the killing was not immediately known.

Reporters Without Borders says Guatemala is a dangerous place for news media workers, with three killed there last year. Guatemala recorded a murder rate of 16.1 per 100,000 inhabitants last year, more than twice the overall global average.