donderdag, april 06, 2006
Press photographer is shot to death in Venezuela
Jorge Aguirre, a photographer with El Mundo newspaper, was shot to death while covering a protest against the murder of three Canadian-Venezuelan brothers.
According to Julio Calderón, the victim's driver, their vehicle was intercepted by an unidentified man in a motorcycle who ordered them to stop.
"He said he was a police officer, but since he had no identification, I did not stop." said Calderón. He added that some minutes later, the man appeared again and fired some shots, wounding Aguirre.
The victim was taken to the Hospital Clínico Universitario, where he was promptly attended, but physicians could not safe his life.
Foto J. Aguirre-El Mundo/AFP.
The last photograph taken by Venezuelan photographer Jorge Aguirre of his unidentified assailant as he flees the place on his bike. Aguirre, who was covering a protest march for his employer El Mundo newspaper, was shot presumably by a police officer riding a motorcycle without identification and died shortly afterwards in hospital.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 13:08
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