A journalist 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" in the city of Derry, also known as Londonderry, police chief Mark Hamilton said in a statement.
Republican political party Saoradh said a "republican volunteer" was trying to "defend people" from the police when the shot was fired that "accidentally" hit McKee.
McKee, 29, had earlier posted an image from the riots, accompanied by the words "Derry tonight. Absolute madness."
Saoradh said "heavily armed" police went in to Creggan "to attack republicans in advance of upcoming Easter Rising Commemorations."
Her partner Sara Canning paid tribute, saying "our hopes and dreams and all of her amazing potential was snuffed out by this single barbaric act." -
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