Press groups say Mexico is one of the most dangerous countries in the world for journalists, second only to war zones.
The prosecutor’s office said all five people were abducted between Sunday and Wednesday in the colonial tourist town of Taxco.
One journalist, Marco Antonio Toledo, his adult son and wife were abducted from their home Sunday and a husband and wife team, Silvia Nayssa Arce and Alberto Sánchez, were captured on Wednesday, according to the press freedom group Article 19.
None of them have been heard from since.
Toledo worked for the online news site The Afternoon Chronicle in the nearby city of Chilpancingo, and Arce and Sánchez worked for another online news site, RedSiete.
Toledo had received threats earlier this year from a drug cartel, which had ordered him not to publish a story. Toledo had also recently reported on a case of local corruption, The Afternoon Chronicle reported.
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