Irish and EU emissaries repeat calls for Dwyer killing inquiry

Top Irish and EU emissaries have met with Bolivian authorities and repeated calls for an independent inquiry into the killing of Irishman Michael Dwyer in the south American country in Apr 2009.

The family of the security worker from Co Tipperary said it was pleased the Government and the EU had taken the step.

Mr Dwyer, 24, was shot dead by police in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz who claimed he and others were involved in an alleged right-wing plot to assassinate the country’s president Evo Morales.