A sniper has fatally shot a Dutch journalist in the Libyan city of Sirte, Islamic State’s last bastion in the chaos-wracked north African country. Both cited fellow journalist Joanie de Rijke of Knack, who was reporting with Oerlemans in Libya. 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 surprised that Oerlemans wanted to return to Libya so soon after a previous assignment, also in Sirte, two months ago. Oerlemans had covered wars in Afghanistan, Syria and Libya and the journey of migrants to Europe.

Source: The Guardian October 02, 2016 22:39 UTC