Relatives, relatives and colleagues said goodbye this Wednesday, between cries for justice and deep pain, of the journalist Humberto Coronel, shot dead by an unknown person in front of the radio station where he worked in the city of Pedro Juan Caballero.
Source: EFE
The body of Coronel, 33, was buried in the municipality of Horqueta, in the department of Concepción, where a large group of people went, according to Radio Amambay.
Carried by men and between the tears and wails in Guaraní of his relatives, the communicator’s coffin was accompanied on foot along a dirt road to a cemetery near his parents’ house.
The day before, the Radio Amambay journalist and founder of the Mbykymi Noticias portal was shot at by a subject who was traveling unaccompanied on a motorcycle.
Colonel, after completing his radio space, was about to open the door of his car when he was surprised by the attacker. According to the first versions of the authorities, he received at least eight bullet wounds.
“My family is destroyed,” Gloria Coronel, one of the eight brothers of the reporter, told the NPY channel, and who remembered him as “the funniest.”
The father of the deceased, Dionisio Coronel, expressed his sorrow for the death of his son, whom he said visited them every 15 days.
In statements to reporters, the grieving man confessed that he does not ask the authorities for anything, since he believes that his son’s death will not be clarified.
Coronel became the eighth press worker killed in the department of Amambay since reporter Santiago Leguizamón was shot in Pedro Juan Caballero on October 26, 1991, according to data from the Table for the Safety of Journalists, a body that articulates entities of the public sector and Paraguayan civil society.
