Monterrey (Mexico), May 3 (IANS/EFE): A radio and television announcer in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila is missing, officials said.

Jose Gerardo Padilla Blanquet disappeared Tuesday in Saltillo, the capital of Coahuila, state security spokesman Jesus Carranza told EFE.

Padilla Blanquet's friends and co-workers reported on social-networking sites that he was missing, Carranza said.

The journalist's family filed a missing persons report Wednesday, Carranza said.

Padilla Blanquet works for Radio Grande de Coahuila, whose director has received threats on numerous occasions and was beaten a few months ago.

State prosecutors are investigating Padilla Blanquet's disappearance, Coahuila Public Safety Secretary Jose Gerardo Villarreal told the press.

"The deputy prosecutor's office for investigating and finding missing persons immediately established a search protocol to try to locate him and we are fully supporting them in everything needed," Villarreal said.

The mutilated body of Daniel Alejandro Martinez, a photographer for Mexico's La Vanguardia newspaper, was found last week along with that of another young man in Saltillo.

The dismembered bodies of the 22-year-old Martinez and 23-year-old Julian Alejandro Zamora Gracia were found April 24 in Los Arcos, a neighborhood in the southern section of Saltillo, the Coahuila state Attorney General's Office said.