Chilean journalist dies after being shot while covering Workers’ Day marches
by John Bartlett in Santiago from World news | The Guardian on (#5Z5Y3)
Francisca Sandoval, 29, is the first journalist to be killed in the line of duty in Chile since the Pinochet dictatorship
A Chilean journalist who was shot in the head by a street trader while covering Workers' Day marches on 1 May has died of her injuries.
Francisca Sandoval, 29, was reporting in Barrio Meiggs, a ramshackle market district in the centre of the capital, Santiago, when a group of men opened fire after a standoff with the marchers.
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