{"id":32601,"date":"2017-02-16T02:43:21","date_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:43:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/two-journalists-killed-during-facebook-live\/"},"modified":"2017-02-16T02:43:17","modified_gmt":"2017-02-16T02:43:17","slug":"two-journalists-killed-during-facebook-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/two-journalists-killed-during-facebook-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Two journalists killed during Facebook Live broadcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Attackers burst into the studio and shot the presenter mid-broadcast, a shooting that was also caught on Facebook live.}<\/p>\n<p>Police in the Dominican Republic have arrested three men after two radio journalists were shot dead during a Facebook Live broadcast, according to officials.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting took place on Tuesday in San Pedro de Macoris, east of the capital Santo Domingo. <\/p>\n<p>The attackers burst into the 103.5 FM studio and shot dead presenter Luis Manuel Medina as he was reading the news on air.<\/p>\n<p>Gunfire and a woman&#8217;s voice shouting, &#8220;Shots, shots!&#8221; can be heard on a Facebook live video streamed by one of the journalists there at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Moments earlier, the station&#8217;s director Leonidas Martinez was killed in his office, witnesses at the radio station told local media. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Two people have died and one has been injured,&#8221; national police spokesman William Alcantara told reporters. He identified the wounded person as the station&#8217;s secretary.<\/p>\n<p>No charges have yet been filed against the arrested men.<\/p>\n<p>According to media rights watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, journalists who tackle corruption and drug trafficking in the Dominican Republic often fall victim to attacks. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18249 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/0978a8be9f1045ac8c3a8e62e6b145b5_18.jpg\" alt=\"Family and friends mourn journalists Luis Manuel Medina and Luis Martinez, announcer and director of the radio station FM 103.5 \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Source:Al Jazeera<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Attackers burst into the studio and shot the presenter mid-broadcast, a shooting that was also caught on Facebook live.} Police in the Dominican Republic have arrested three men after two radio journalists were shot dead during a Facebook Live broadcast, according to officials. The shooting took place on Tuesday in San Pedro de Macoris, east [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[101],"byline":[2474],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-internationl","byline-al-jazeera"],"bylines":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2474,"name":"AL JAZEERA","slug":"al-jazeera","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32601"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32601\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32601"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32601"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}