Eyewitness recounts story of reporters death
Posted by Matt Dioguardi on September 29th, 2007
Yomiuri interviewed an eyewitness to Kenji Nagai’s death as a result of a shooting incident in Myanmar (link):
“A troop vehicle arrived from behind. A soldier fired a gun, so I ran away with other people standing nearby…After a while, I looked back toward the direction where Nagai was standing and saw him lying on the street. I assume he was accidentally shot from behind,” the man said. Nagai was left on the street and nobody could approach him while soldiers continued shooting. The man temporarily left the site and came back shortly afterward, but Nagai was still lying on the street. “He looked like he was dead. I couldn’t do anything to help him, so I watched with others from a safe distance until an ambulance arrived,” the man said.