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Three journalists from #Europe have been killed in an ambush in the Central African Republican by unidentified assailants, a local mayor tells @Reuters.
Henri Depele, the mayor of Sibut, around 200 km NE of the capital Bangui, tells @Reuters two Russians and one Ukrainian were killed at around 21:00 GMT by armed men who emerged from the bush.
Slain Russian journalists were reportedly making a documentary about the Wagner Group private military contractor. interfax.ru/world/623325
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