TV journalist killed in Tanzania

Tanzanian television journalist Daudi Mwangosi died on Sunday during clashes between police and supporters of an opposition political party.

The Channel Ten journalist was killed in the village of Nyololo – about 500 km west of the capital Dar es Salaam.

Mwangosi was covering the opening of a local office of the Party for Democracy and Progress – CHADEMA.

Neville Meena, Secretary-General of the Tanzania Editors’ Forum (TEF), told Reuters that police fired a tear gas canister into Mwangosi’s stomach at close range.

“It was a deliberate move by the police, who clearly targeted this journalist. Eyewitnesses said the journalist was surrounded by police, beaten up and brutally killed.”

Mwangosi was elected chairman of the Iringa Press Club in 2011.

The International Federation of Journalists has condemned the killing and demanded an immediate inquiry.

The Committee to Protect Journalists says its “the first work-related fatality” it has documented in Tanzania since the organisation began keeping detailed records in 1992.