A Mexican journalist has been killed by a group of armed men who gunned him down as he was leaving the radio station building where he worked.

Filiberto Alvarez Landeros, 65, was gunned down by a group of armed men while leaving the radio channel building in the city of Tlaquiltenango, in the central Mexican state of Morelos.

The reporter, who was the host of the radio programme “Poemas y cantares” (Poems and Songs) where he usually read his poems between 9 and 10 pm every Saturday, was believed to be in his vehicle when a group of armed men approached him and shot him.