17 September 2004
Vladimir Pritchin
Beating
A journalist was killed in the Republic of Buryatia, Russia, in the course of a poaching raid on September 17.
Severobaikalsk Television Company Editor-in-Chief Vladimir Pritchin filmed the raid conducted by three inspectors. They saw poachers but the wrongdoers managed to escape.
The inspectors and Pritchin stopped for the night at a pickup post where seven other people were staying. The poachers attacked the sleeping people, took their guns and disappeared in the inspectors’ motorboats.
Pritchin died on the way to hospital. One of the inspectors died in hospital.
