International News Safety Institute

27 May 2010

Aníbal Archila

Incident

Aníbal Archila

Cause of death

Other accident

Details

Aníbal Archila, a Guatemalan reporter for Notisiete, was killed as he was reporting on the eruption of the Pacaya volcano.

Firefighters and another journalist found his body near Cerro Chino. Archila, 32, had worked for 12 years as a journalist.

Fellow worker Vinicio Fuentes said Archilla couldn't escape from the volcanic stone rain and was hit several times by lava and rocks. Archilla was lying in a foetal position, still holding his video camera.

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