SIERRA LEONE: TWO A.P JOURNALISTS SHOT IN FREETOWN

Описание: (10 Jan 1999) Natural Sound
Two Associated Press journalists have been shot while covering the civil war in Sierra Leone.
It happened on Sunday in Freetown, the embattled capital of the West African country.
The journalists' names are being withheld until family members are notified.
The two A-P journalists were among a group of reporters and government officials travelling in four cars along this road.
They were escorted by troops of a West African coalition force that's protecting the elected government.
The capital of the tiny, destitute West African country has been carved into neighbourhoods of rebel and loyalist control.
The rebels are battling government soldiers, a civil defence force militia and troops from a Nigerian-led coalition of West African nations.
According to others in the convoy, a fighter walking on the street approached this station wagon, which carried the A-P journalists.
The fighter exchanged words with a soldier in the car, then opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle.
One is an A-P staff writer and the other works for Associated Press Television News.

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