Newsmen killed in Iraq: list

Published April 9, 2003

LONDON, April 8: Three journalists were killed in Baghdad on Tuesday in two separate incidents involving US forces leading the war in Iraq.

Following is a list of journalists killed since the US-led invasion began on March 20:

March 22 - Australian cameraman Paul Moran killed by car bomb in northern Iraq.

March 22 - Terry Lloyd, journalist from Britain’s Independent Television News, killed after coming under fire on way to Basra, southern Iraq. Cameraman Fred Nerac and translator Hussein Othman, travelling with Lloyd, still missing.

April 2 - Kaveh Golestan, Iranian freelance cameraman working for the BBC killed when he stepped on a landmine. He had been filming at Kifri.

April 3 - Michael Kelly, former editor-in-chief of the Atlantic Monthly, killed with a US soldier in accident involving their Humvee military jeep.

April 6 - Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a Kurdish translator working for the BBC, died when a US jet apparently bombed a convoy of American special forces and Kurdish fighters not far from the town of Kalak.

April 7 - German Christian Liebig of weekly magazine Focus and Spaniard Julio Anguita Parrado of the newspaper El Mundo, killed in an Iraqi missile strike. They were with the US 2nd Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division in the southern outskirts of Baghdad. Two US soldiers were also killed in the attack.

April 8 - Tarek Ayoub, a producer and correspondent for Al-Jazeera television, killed in US air raid on Baghdad. A second Jazeera correspondent was slightly wounded in the attack.

April 8 - Reuters cameraman Taras Protsyuk, 35, a Ukrainian based in Warsaw, died after blast at the Palestine Hotel, base for many foreign media in Baghdad. Jose Couso, 37, a cameraman for Spanish television channel Tele 5, was wounded in the attack and later died in hospital. Three members of Reuters team wounded.

In addition to those killed in military action, two other journalists inside Iraq have died while covering the war.

March 30 - Britain’s Channel 4 TV reporter Gaby Rado, 48, was found dead at a northern Iraqi hotel, but his employers said his death was not connected to combat.

April 6 - David Bloom, 39, of US television network NBC, died after suffering a blood clot on his lungs.—Reuters

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