2 newsmen are ambushed, killed by Sierra Leone rebels
Published on: Sunday 16 June 2019
FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) -- A cameraman for Associated Press Television News and a Reuters correspondent, both renowned for covering the world's most dangerous conflicts, and four Sierra Leone soldiers were killed when suspected rebels ambushed their vehicles, U.N. officials and local reporters said.
Spaniard Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, 32, of APTN and Washington native Kurt Schork, 53, of Reuters, died Wednesday after they were hit near Rogberi Junction, an area hotly contested in recent days by pro-government forces and rebels of the Revolutionary United Front, journalists said.
News source: https://www.deseretnews.com/article/762116/2-newsmen-are-ambushed-killed-by-Sierra-Leone-rebels.html
