Lyra McKee was shot and killed while covering violent protests in Londonderry on Thursday.
People gather around the floral tributes placed at the scene where journalist Lyra McKee was fatally shot on Thursday in the Creggan area of Derry in Northern Ireland. By Siobhán O'Grady Siobhán O'Grady WorldViews reporter Email Bio Follow April 20 at 1:33 PM Two teenagers are under arrest in Northern Ireland in connection with the killing of a 29-year-old journalist who was shot dead during riots on Thursday evening.
McKee was killed nearly 21 years to the day after a 1998 peace treaty, known as the Good Friday Agreement, was signed, ending the Troubles, the long period of violence in Northern Ireland in which Irish nationalist battled with U.K. loyalists and British troops. She was working on a book about young people who disappeared during the Troubles.
On Saturday, Chief Detective Jason Murphy said that Northern Ireland is seeing “a new breed of terrorist coming through the ranks, and that for me is a very worrying situation,” the Associated Press reported.
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