The Catalan photographer and tour guide Toni Espadas has been shot dead in Ethiopia by two individuals who opened fire on the team of the Chilean television program ‘Partners for the World’, of which the victim was a part. All of them were there to report to a tribe in this African country. “As Channel 13 we deeply regret Toni’s death, and from a distance, we send his family all our support,” this Chilean television station reported. The rest of the members of the expedition were unharmed.
The team was recording the Mursi tribe, which was not the author of the attack. In fact, the shooting of the team’s van by these two individuals after crossing their path “was recorded once they were leaving the area, after having finished the day,” the network reported after speaking with its team in the African country. Apparently, it would be an act of crime.
“The hosts and all members of the team of the program made by the production company MkZeta are in good health,” the statement said. The Chilean Ministry of Foreign Affairs is taking the necessary steps to repatriate them so that they can leave the African country “as soon as possible.”
Toni Espadas, born in Barcelona in 1969, specialized in travel and photography. According to his website, he opened his first travel agency in Ethiopia in 2010, which he later expanded to countries such as Uganda, Tanzania, Gabon, Eritrea, Benin , Angola or South Sudan. “For a few years now, I have been advising journalists and production companies, working as a fixer for the production of reports, documentaries and television programs focused on the study of African peoples and cultures,” Espadas himself wrote in his Instagram biography.
Espadas was part of the team led by the renowned Chilean journalist Francisco ‘Pancho’ Saavedra and the actor, also from this Latin American country, Jorge Zabaleta, presenters of ‘Socios por el Mundo’, a program to “discover new and distant cultures, reveal exotic and beautiful landscapes, and live great adventures,” according to the channel on its website, and of which they began recording the third season at the beginning of April.
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