Former BBC journalist dies in Bahrain crash

Manama : A BBC television reporter who covered some of the worst atrocities of Northern Ireland’s Troubles before going on to head up the police’s communications office in the region has been killed in Bahrain.

Austin Hunter, who also worked as editor of the Ulster Newsletter, was knocked down while crossing the road in the Gulf state.

The 64-year-old was on business in Bahrain when the accident happened on Saturday night.

In a statement the Hunter family said on Sunday that this wife Jean, son Simon and daughter Rachael were “absolutely devastated at the loss of a loving husband, father and grandfather”.