AMSTERDAM — A sniper fatally shot a Dutch photojournalist on Sunday in the Libyan city of Sirte, ISIL’s last bastion in the chaos-wracked North African country. The Dutch ambassador to Libya, Eric Strating, tweeted: “Rest in Peace. Your photographs of #Sirte #Libya and other places will live on forever.”Foreign Minister Bert Koenders said in a statement that “Oerlemans is a journalist who kept going where others stopped. He was wearing a bulletproof vest and helmet, “so he was protected,” and was clearly identifiable as a journalist, de Rijke, the journalist travelling with him, told Dutch national broadcaster NOS. They are even making their wounded fight,” Dutch government spokesman Reda Eissa told The New York Times.

Source: National Post October 03, 2016 14:03 UTC