LONDON: A woman has been shot dead during riots in the city of Londonderry in Northern Ireland and the killing is being treated as a terrorist incident, police said Friday, following the latest upsurge in violence to shake the troubled region. “I just received the heartbreaking news that my friend @LyraMcKee was murdered tonight in a terrorist incident in Derry,” he wrote on Twitter. “My heart goes out to the family of the young woman shot dead by so-called dissidents,” she wrote on Twitter. Arlene Foster, leader of the Democratic Union Party, which is in favour of Britain´s presence in Northern Ireland, described the death as “heartbreaking news”. Some have expressed fears that recent attacks could be a sign that paramilitaries are seeking to exploit the current political turbulence over Northern Ireland and its border with the Republic of Ireland caused by Brexit.

Source: Pakistan Today April 19, 2019 04:30 UTC