Dominican journalists shot dead mid-broadcast


  • World
  • Wednesday, 15 Feb 2017

Police officers take fingerprints at a radio station after an unknown attacker killed its director, shot dead and a commentator while he was transmitting live and wounded a secretary, in San Pedro de Macoris, eastern Dominican Republic. - AFP

SANTO DOMINGO: Two journalists were shot dead during a live radio broadcast in the Dominican Republic, police and media said.

Unidentified attackers burst into the 103.5 FM studio as presenter Luis Manuel Medina was reading the news on air on Tuesday and shot him dead, station employees were quoted as saying by local media.

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