Journalist, 29, shot dead in 'terror incident' as she covered Londonderry riot

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‘The loss her friends feel is quantifiable. Unfathomable. She is utterly irreplaceable.’

A reporter who died after shots were fired in Londonderry, with police in Northern Ireland has been named as Lyra McKee.

Assistant chief constable Mark Hamilton said police believe the attack was carried out by ‘violent dissident republicans’, adding: ‘Our assessment at this time would be that the New IRA is the most likely to be behind this and that forms our primary line of inquiry.’ Ms McKee, from Belfast, worked as an editor for California-based news site Mediagazer, a trade publication covering the media industry.

Writing on Twitter, she said: ‘I was standing beside this young woman when she fell beside a police Land Rover tonight in Creggan #Derry. Assistant chief constable Mark Hamilton, from the Police Service of Northern Ireland, said a murder inquiry had been launched after the death

 

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