London - Police have arrested two young men in connection with
the fatal shooting of a 29-year-old journalist during a riot in the
Northern Irish city of Derry/Londonderry.
Lyra McKee was standing near police when she was shot in the head
around 11 pm (2300 GMT) on Thursday in the suburb of Creggan. The
city is known as Derry to Irish nationalists and Londonderry to
British unionists.
The men are aged 18 and 19, police said on Saturday. They have been
taken to Belfast, the Northern Irish capital, for questioning.
Police described the shooting as a "terrorist incident" and suspect
it was linked to a militant group known as the New Irish Republican
Army (IRA).
The New IRA rejects the Good Friday agreement of 1998, which put an
end to three decades of sectarian conflict in Northern Ireland that
claimed more than 3,600 lives. They want to bring about a united
Ireland.
Police on Friday released footage of the shooting showing one
suspect.
The unrest in the city came just before the Easter weekend, when
republican dissidents, who want to reunify Northern Ireland with the
Republic of Ireland, traditionally mark the anniversary of the 1916
Easter Uprising against British rule.