LONDON — The police in Northern Ireland said on Saturday that they had arrested two men under the terrorism act in connection with the killing of Lyra McKee, a journalist who was covering a night of violent unrest in Londonderry. Londonderry is known to many of its residents, especially those who are Roman Catholic, as Derry. The police said on Friday that they were attributing the killing on Thursday night to the New Irish Republican Army, a militant splinter group. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Ms. McKee, 29, was the first journalist to be killed in Northern Ireland since 2001, when loyalists — unionist extremists — shot dead Martin O’Hagan, a reporter investigating paramilitaries and drug gangs for a Dublin-based newspaper. The video also shows a masked figure leaning in from behind a street corner.

Source: New York Times April 20, 2019 07:42 UTC