Senegal: Two Sports Journalists Wounded in Armed Ambush
Reporters sans Frontières (Paris)
PRESS RELEASE
28 April 2008
Posted to the web 28 April 2008
A group of sports journalists were travelling in convoy towards the southern city of Ziguinchor to cover a wrestling tournament on the night of 25 April when they are held up by about 10 gunmen who had barricaded the road at Keur Marie, about 30 km from the central town of Kaolack. The journalists were robbed of their money, computers, cameras and mobile phones and two of them, employed by the Sunu Lamb sports daily, were shot and wounded.
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