The leaders of Britain and Ireland will join hundreds of mourners Wednesday at the funeral of Lyra McKee, the young journalist shot dead during rioting in Northern Ireland last week.
Prime Minister Theresa May will skip her weekly House of Commons question-and-answer session to attend the service at Belfast's St. Anne's Cathedral, her Downing Street office said.
McKee, 29, was killed Thursday as she reported on rioting in the city of Londonderry, also known as Derry. A small Irish nationalist militant group, the New IRA, said it was responsible. The group apologized, saying McKee was shot "while standing beside enemy forces" -- a reference to the police.The IRA and most other paramilitary groups have disarmed since Northern Ireland's 1998 peace accord.
McKee had written about the struggles of the "cease-fire babies," the generation raised after the 1998 Good Friday accord in a Northern Ireland that was supposed to be moving beyond sectarian conflict.
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