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Three men have been arrested after two journalists were killed during a live radio broadcast in the Dominican Republic.

One of the journalists was filming his show on Facebook Live when he was shot.

The footage showed his broadcast interrupted by gunfire and a panicked woman shouting "Shots! Shots! Shots!".

Police said the shooting happened on Tuesday in San Pedro de Macoris, east of the capital Santo Domingo.

The two journalists killed were presenter Luis Manuel Medina and radio producer Leo Martinez.

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A woman was also injured and is undergoing surgery, said local authorities.

The arrested men have not been charged and police say they do not know the motive.

"The investigations have begun and we will try, with all the means in our powers, to reach the truth," Attorney General Jean Rodriguez told the local press.

In August 2015, two US journalists were shot dead during a live TV report in Virginia.</s>(CNN) As followers of Luis Manuel Medina's Facebook Live video watched another of his radio monologues on Tuesday, two loud bangs rang out.

Viewers heard a woman yell. They then watched Medina look up from his microphone, his eyes tracking something off-camera. The video abruptly ends.

Medina, along with his radio co-worker Leonidas Martinez, were shot and killed Tuesday while hosting their radio program in San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic, attorney general Jean Rodriguez said in a statement

The Facebook Live video that appears to show the final moments of Medina's life remains up on his page , flooded by commenters mourning his death.

Medina's Facebook page is full of similar Facebook Live videos of his radio show; he often posted several short videos each weekday.

Medina and Martinez had been hosting the show "Milenio Caliente," which transmits at the station FM 103, according to the attorney general's office. A website for the radio station lists Martinez as the presenter and producer of the morning talk show.

Dayanna Garcia de Fernandez, the men's co-worker, was injured in the shooting and is in stable condition, the National Police of the Dominican Republic said

Police said they have identified a suspect in the case.</s>Gunmen in the Dominican Republic opened fire and killed two radio journalists during a news bulletin broadcast on Facebook Live. The incident took place on 14 February at the radio station FM 103.5, which is situated in a shopping mall in San Pedro de Macorís city.

The assailants killed presenter Luís Manuel Medina of Milenio Caliente (Hot Millennium) — a morning news programme - and also shot the show's producer and director Leo Martínez, who was in the adjacent room.

Sounds of the attack could be heard on the Facebook Live session along with a woman shouting "Shots! Shots! Shots!" before the transmission was cut abruptly.

According to the news website El Boletin, Dayaba Garcia who worked with the radio station as a secretary, was also shot at. She was rushed to the hospital where she required emergency surgery.

Police have arrested three men in connection with the shooting but are yet to identify any motive behind it. The radio show was known to discuss a variety of subjects from political to social issues. Medina had recently been criticising the contamination of the Laguna Mallen, a protected lake in the city.

While journalists in the Dominican Republic face their fair share of harassment and threats, murders are very rare. "For gunmen to open fire in a media outlet like this is unprecedented," Olivo de Leon, from the College of Journalism told The Guardian.

"The authorities must investigate to determine not just the killers but also the intellectual authors so that we know why they were murdered. Impunity in this case will generate fear among journalists, making them scared to speak out and do their jobs. The government must guarantee freedom of expression," Leon said.

Numerous establishments, including banks within the shopping mall - where the shooting occurred - pulled down their shutters for the day as a precautionary measure.</s>A radio producer and an announcer have been fatally shot in the Dominican Republic while one of them was reading the news during a live transmission on Facebook.

Police said the shooting occurred on Tuesday in San Pedro de Macorís, just east of the capital, Santo Domingo. Three men have been detained, but no one has been charged.

Gunfire is heard during the Facebook Live video, along with a woman yelling “Shots! Shots! Shots!” before the transmission cuts off. Police say they do not yet have a motive.

The victims were identified as the announcer Luis Manuel Medina and the producer and director Leo Martínez at radio station 103.5 HICC. Police say a secretary was injured and is undergoing surgery.

Medina was also the official announcer of the Estrellas Orientales baseball team.</s>(BBC) Three men have been arrested after two journalists were killed during a live radio broadcast in the Dominican Republic.

One of the journalists was filming his show on Facebook Live when he was shot.

The footage showed his broadcast interrupted by gunfire and a panicked woman shouting “Shots! Shots! Shots!”.

Police said the shooting happened on Tuesday in San Pedro de Macoris, east of the capital Santo Domingo.

The two journalists killed were presenter Luis Manuel Medina and radio producer Leo Martinez.

A woman was also injured and is undergoing surgery, said local authorities.

The arrested men have not been charged and police say they do not know the motive.

“The investigations have begun and we will try, with all the means in our powers, to reach the truth,” Attorney General Jean Rodriguez told the local press.

In August 2015, two US journalists were shot dead during a live TV report in Virginia.</s>The attack happened at the headquarters of Dominican radio station 103.5 FM in San Pedro de Macoris (pictured), east of the capital Santo Domingo (AFP Photo/Erika SANTELICES)

Santo Domingo (AFP) - Two journalists were shot dead during a live radio broadcast in the Dominican Republic, police and media said.

Unidentified attackers burst into the 103.5 FM studio as presenter Luis Manuel Medina was reading the news on air on Tuesday and shot him dead, station employees were quoted as saying by local media.

Moments before that the station's director Leonidas Martinez was killed in his office, they said.

In a video of the broadcast, which was streamed on Facebook, gunfire is heard as Medina reads the news and a woman's voice is heard calling "Shots, shots!"

"Two people have died and one has been injured," national police spokesman William Alcantara told reporters. He identified the injured person as the station's secretary.

The attack occurred at the radio station's office in San Pedro de Macoris, east of the capital Santo Domingo.

Medina was presenting the influential investigative news show "Milenio Caliente," or "Hot Millenium," on Tuesday morning in the Caribbean nation, which shares the island of Hispaniola with Haiti and is a popular beach destination for foreign tourists.

The Miami-based Interamerican Press Society (SIP) condemned the 103.5 FM "tragedy" in a statement.

Its press freedom chief Roberto Rock urged investigators "to shed light on the killings and bring those responsible to justice, to prevent impunity from protecting those who want to keep generating violence against the media."

Media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders says that journalists who tackle corruption and drug trafficking in the Dominican Republic often fall victim to attacks.

"Freedom of information is also weakened by continuing impunity for crimes of violence against media personnel and the concentration of media ownership in few hands," it said in a 2015 report.

The watchdog noted that Blas Olivo, press director of the Dominican Agribusiness Association, was found murdered that year.

A television cameraman was shot dead in broad daylight in 2014 and a newspaper reporter was shot at but not hurt days before that.

Other journalists have said they were victims of hate campaigns after speaking up for the citizenship rights of Haitians born in the Dominican Republic.</s>A radio producer and an announcer were fatally shot in the Dominican Republic while one of them was reading the news during a live transmission on Facebook. Police said the shooting occurred Tuesday in San Pedro de Macoris, just east of the capital of Santo Domingo.

Start the conversation, or Read more at GlobalNews.</s>Two radio journalists have been killed in the Dominican Republic after gunmen opened fire during a news bulletin which was being broadcast on Facebook Live.Luís Manuel Medina, the presenter of the news programme Milenio Caliente – or Hot Millennium – was killed while on air on Tuesday morning. Producer and director Leo Martínez was shot dead in an adjacent office at the radio station FM 103.5.</s>A radio presenter and a producer were shot dead in the Dominican Republic as they broadcast the news live on Facebook yesterday.

Police said the shooting occurred at the radio station, which is based inside a shopping mall in the town of San Pedro de Macoris, just east of the capital of Santo Domingo.

The victims have been identified as presenter Luis Manuel Medina and producer and director Leo Martinez at radio station 103.5 HICC.

During the Facebook Live video gunfire is heard, along with a woman yelling “shots, shots, shots” before the transmission cuts off.

Police said the station secretary, named as Dayaba Garcia, was also injured in the attack and is undergoing surgery.

Medina presented Milenio Caliente (Hot Millennium), a local news programme that included political analysis and social campaigning, and was also the official announcer of the Estrellas Orientales baseball team

He had been using the programme to highlight the issue of pollution in Laguna Mallen, a protected lake in San Pedro, according to the Guardian.

Three men have been detained, but no one has been charged and a motive has yet to be establish for the attack.

The intimidation of journalists reporting on organised crime and corruption is said to be fairly common in the Dominican Republic, although murder is rare.

Olivo de Leon, from the College of Journalism who knew both men, told the Guardian: “For gunmen to open fire in a media outlet like this is unprecedented.

“The authorities must investigate to determine not just the killers but also the intellectual authors so that we know why they were murdered.

“Impunity in this case will generate fear among journalists, making them scared to speak out and do their jobs. The government must guarantee freedom of expression.”

Tributes have been paid to Medina on his Facebook page.

One read: “There is no word to describe the sadness that overwhelms the family and the people of San Pedro de Macoris for the murder of the voices of our people.”</s>As followers of Luis Manuel Medina's Facebook Live video watched another of his radio monologues on Tuesday, two loud bangs rang out.

Viewers heard a woman yell. They then watched Medina look up from his microphone, his eyes tracking something off-camera. The video abruptly ends.

Medina, along with his radio co-worker Leonidas Martinez, were shot and killed Tuesday while hosting their radio program in San Pedro de Macoris in the Dominican Republic, attorney general Jean Rodriguez said in a statement.

The Facebook Live video that appears to show the final moments of Medina's life remains up on his page, flooded by commenters mourning his death.

Medina's Facebook page is full of similar Facebook Live videos of his radio show; he often posted several short videos each weekday.

Medina and Martinez had been hosting the show "Milenio Caliente," which transmits at the station FM 103, according to the attorney general's office. A website for the radio station lists Martinez as the presenter and producer of the morning talk show.

Dayanna Garcia de Fernandez, the men's co-worker, was injured in the shooting and is in stable condition, the National Police of the Dominican Republic said.

Police said they have identified a suspect in the case.

"We deeply regret today's events with the death of these communicators, a condemnable and painful act that has appalled the Dominican society," Rodriguez said, as translated from Spanish. "The investigations are underway and we will seek with all the tools at our disposal to find the truth."
Two radio journalists are shot dead and a co-worker injured in San Pedro de Macorís, Dominican Republic, while presenting the show "Milenio Caliente" on Facebook Live. Three people were arrested.