French NGO head killed in Guatemala

The French director of an NGO in Guatemala was killed Monday in an armed attack in the northeast of the country, a human rights organization said.

Benoit Maria was the director of the agriculture and animal health NGO Agronomes et Veterinaires Sans Frontieres (AVSF).

According to local media, Maria was driving a van on a road near the indigenous village of San Antonio Ilotenango, 85 kilometers northwest of the capital Guatemala City, when he was shot dead.

AFP