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Edward Smith

Gender: Male
TV Journalist
  • Organisation: BBC
  • Case: Death
  • Culprit: RUF fighters
  • Country: Sierra Leone
  • City: Makeni and Kono districts Freetown

BBC correspondent Edward Smith, a native of Sierra Leone, was shot dead on April 13, 1998, when RUF fighters ambushed a convoy of West African peace-keeping forces in which the journalist was traveling. Smith was reporting from the trenches in Makeni and Kono districts, northeast of the capital Freetown.

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