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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll

Lyra McKee: two more men arrested over murder of journalist

Lyra McKee
The death of Lyra McKee in 2019 caused outrage across the UK. Photograph: Jess Lowe/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Detectives investigating the murder of the journalist Lyra McKee in Derry have arrested two more men.

The men, aged 44 and 53, were detained on Friday morning under the Terrorism Act and taken to the serious crime suite at Musgrave police station in Belfast for interview.

McKee, 29, was shot dead while observing riots in the Creggan area in Derry in April 2019.

It brings to nine the number of arrests over the killing and related offences. Three men have already been charged with murder and another four charged with rioting and associated offences on the night McKee was killed.

Of the seven, two men, a 29-year-old and a 24-year-old, were charged last week over alleged riot offences.

A dissident republican group that styles itself as the New IRA, one of a number of groups opposed to the Good Friday agreement, has previously claimed it was responsible for killing McKee.

Her death caused outrage in the UK and the world of journalism and was condemned by figures from across the political spectrum.

The writer, who was living in the city with her partner, Sara Canning, was also a prominent marriage equality campaigner and an articulate advocate of a new and more tolerant Northern Ireland.

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