In the killing of 29-year-old Lyra McKee, investigative journalist, two teenagers have been arrested by the Northern Ireland Police, authorities said.
Arrested under the terrorism act, the suspects of the murder are both men, ages 19 and 18. This was reported in a tweet by the Police Service of Northern Ireland. They have also said that they have been taken to a police station in central Belfast.
In what the police in Northern Ireland tagged a “terrorist incident”, McKee, who was considered a well respected journalist was killed on Thursday in the Creggan area of Londonderry.
Dissident republicans are suspected to be responsible for the journalists death, which happened during a night of rioting. Pictures from the scene showed that vehicles alighted as a large crowd threw fireworks and also petrol bombs at emergency vehicles.
She died shortly after the injuries she sustained as she stood by a police vehicle and was wounded by a gunman who was mindlessly firing shots into a residential area. This was reported to reporters Friday by the assistant chief constable Mark Hamilton.
The city — which is known by Irish nationalists as Derry and British unionists as Londonderry — is not too far from the border with the Republic of Ireland.
According to the nonprofit organization, Committee to Protect Journalists, Lyra Mckee, who was born in Belfast, is the first journalist to be killed in the UK since 2001.