A television journalist was beaten to death in Vladivostok, police in the Russian Pacific coast city said on Monday. Colleagues said they did not believe the killing was connected to his work.

The body of Konstantin Borovko, 25, was found on a street in the city early Saturday with injuries consistent with a beating, said Yekaterina Polyanskaya, a spokeswoman for the regional Interior Ministry branch.

In the city of Partizansk, near Vladivostok, a journalist was beaten on Friday in an attack colleagues suspect was linked to an investigation into allegations that a local company was late paying wages and otherwise mistreating employees, Russian news agencies reported on Monday.

Tamara Golovanova, a reporter with the local newspaper Vesti, was beaten in the face and chest by an unidentified assailant who had demanded she stop taking pictures of people she was interviewing in connection with the allegations against the company, Interfax reported.