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A popular female journalist has reportedly lost her life after being attacked by a lone gunman.
Lyra Mckee
A female journalist, Lyra McKee was shot dead during riots in
Northern Ireland in what police Friday were treating as a terrorist
incident following the latest upsurge in violence to shake the troubled
region.
“Lyra McKee was murdered during orchestrated violence in Creggan
last night,” Assistant Chief Constable Mark Hamilton said in a
statement.
McKee had earlier posted an image that appeared to be from the
riots in the Creggan housing estate in the city of Londonderry, also
known as Derry, accompanied by the words “Derry tonight. Absolute madness.”
Images of the unrest posted on social media showed a car and van
ablaze and hooded individuals throwing petrol bombs and fireworks at
police vehicles.
“A single gunman fired shots in a residential area of the city and as a result wounded Ms McKee,” said Hamilton, adding that police believed the gunman was a “violent dissident republican.”
“We are treating this as a terrorist incident and we have launched a murder enquiry,” he added.
Journalist Matthew Hughes earlier identified the dead woman as one of his friends.
“I just received the heartbreaking news that my friend @LyraMcKee was murdered tonight in a terrorist incident in Derry,” he wrote on Twitter.
McKee had written for The Atlantic magazine and Buzzfeed News and was named by Forbes Magazine in 2016 as one of their “30 under 30” oustanding figures in media, according to her literary agent Janklow & Nesbit.
Leona O’Neill, a reporter with the Belfast Telegraph, said she had been next to McKee when she was shot.
“I was standing beside this young woman when she fell beside a
police Land Rover tonight in Creggan #Derry. I called an ambulance for
her but police put her in the back of their vehicle and rushed her to
hospital where she died. Just 29 years old. Sick to my stomach tonight,”
she tweeted.
The violence came in the run-up to the Easter weekend, when
Republicans opposed to the British presence in Northern Ireland mark the
anniversary of a 1916 uprising against British rule.
A car-bombing and the hijacking of two vans in Londonderry earlier this year were also blamed on a dissident paramilitary group.
Michelle O’Neill, the deputy leader of Irish republican party Sinn Fein, condemned the killing.
“My heart goes out to the family of the young woman shot dead by so-called dissidents,” she wrote on Twitter.
“This was an attack on the community, an attack on the peace process and an attack on the Good Friday Agreement,” the peace deal that largely brought an end to violence on the island exactly 21 years ago, she added, calling for calm.
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