Missing Mexican journalist's body found

A police officer walks near where the body of missing 59-year-old Mexican journalist Luis Martin Sanchez Iniguez, correspondent for the newspaper La Jornada, was found with signs of violence in Tepic, Nayarit state, Mexico July 08, 2023. REUTERS/Hugo Cervantes

(Reuters) -The body of missing 59-year-old Mexican journalist Luis Martín Sanchez Iniguez was found in the Mexican state of Nayarit with signs of violence, the state public prosecutor's office confirmed Saturday.

Sanchez Iniguez worked for the newspaper La Jornada. He had been missing since Wednesday and his wife filed a missing persons report with Mexican authorities on Friday.