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SANTIAGO JUXTLACUACA, Mexico — Two Mexican activists missing after an attack on an aid convoy, in which one Mexican and one Finn were killed, returned on Thursday and said two missing journalists were alive. The activists said one of the journalists had been shot in the foot so they could not leave a mountainous area where they had fled after Tuesday's attack in San Juan Copala, southern Mexico, where tensions are high between indigenous Trique groups and authorities. Police were unable to enter the volatile area on foot on Thursday due to gunfire, the father of the injured journalist, David...

Police and rescuers failed to find two journalists stranded for a third day among feuding militants in a remote village after their caravan of Mexican and European rights activists was caught in a deadly ambush. Authorities struggled to locate the missing journalists Thursday near the remote Triqui Indian town of San Juan Copala, where a violent dispute between rival political factions has reportedly cut off basic supplies and services to residents. The convoy members killed were Finnish human rights activist Jyri Jaakkola, who reportedly came to document deteriorating conditions in the village, and Mexican political activist Beatriz Carino Trujillo. But...