A French photojournalist has been killed while on a reporting assignment in conflict-torn Central African Republic, probably in an ambush, French President Francois Hollande says.
Speaking to the press in Tbilisi on his visit to Georgia, Hollande said on Tuesday the journalist, Camille Lepage, “was taking photographs, doing her job and no doubt fell into an ambush”.
Her body was found by a patrol of French peacekeeping troops, who were checking a vehicle driven by “anti-balaka” militia in the region of Bouar, in the west of Central Africa, a French presidency statement said, referring to militiamen from the mainly Christian vigilante group.
Lepage was 26 and worked as a photographer for Hans Lucas, a studio based in Paris, according to its website.
Her death comes six months after two French journalists for RFI radio were killed in Mali….
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