US military aircraft crashes in sea off Japan; 1 killed

TOKYO—A US military aircraft carrying six people crashed into the sea in western Japan on Wednesday, killing at least one crew member with the condition of at least two hauled from waters unclear. Japan’s coast guard said it found what appeared to be wreckage from the tilt-rotor V-22 Osprey and one person who was later confirmed to have died some 3 km from Yakushima island. Fishing boats in the area found three people in the surrounding waters, a representative of a local fisheries cooperative said. The United States has about 54,000 US troops in Japan, many in the strategically important southern island chain, amid growing Chinese military assertiveness in the South China Sea. —Reuters

4 reporters shot, injured in southern Mexico

ACAPULCO—Four journalists were shot and wounded in southern Mexico on Tuesday, officials said, the latest in a series of attacks that make the country one of the most dangerous for reporters. Attackers on a motorcycle opened fire on three of the journalists around noon in Chilpancingo, capital of Guerrero state, where they were covering a murder, the local prosecutor’s office said. The journalists—Jesus Antonio de la Cruz, Oscar Guerrero and Victor Mateo Francisco—sustained injuries to the back, arm and neck. The media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said the trio were in stable condition. “RSF calls on the authorities to act quickly to ensure their protection & that of their families,” RSF said on X, formerly Twitter. A fourth journalist, Maynor Ramon Ramirez, was wounded by gunfire in the city of Apatzingan in the neighboring state of Michoacan, police said. He had survived an attack in 2016. —AFP