New IRA Admits Responsibility For Killing N.Ireland Journalist
Faizan Hashmi Published April 23, 2019 | 02:12 PM
Dissident republican group the New IRA on Tuesday admitted responsibility and apologised for killing Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee during rioting in Londonderry last week
London, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Apr, 2019 ) :Dissident republican group the New IRA on Tuesday admitted responsibility and apologised for killing Northern Irish journalist Lyra McKee during rioting in Londonderry last week.
The New IRA "offer our full and sincere apologies to the partner, family and friends of Lyra McKee for her death," it said in a statement to The Irish news.
The newspaper said the paramilitary group used a recognised codeword -- an established method of communication during the decades of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland known as "The Troubles".
McKee, 29, was shot in the head late Thursday as dissident republicans clashed with police in the Creggan housing estate in Northern Ireland's second city, also known as Derry.
Tributes to McKee, who was also a writer, were led by her partner, Sara Canning, who said her "amazing potential was snuffed out by this single barbaric act".
While admitting responsibility, the New IRA attempted to justify its actions by claiming she was killed during an attack on "enemy forces" and accused police of provoking the riot which preceded her death.
"In the course of attacking the enemy Lyra McKee was tragically killed while standing beside enemy forces," the statement said.
"On Thursday night, following an incursion on the Creggan by heavily armed British crown forces which provoked rioting, the IRA deployed our volunteers to engage," the New IRA statement said, according to The Irish News.
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