WASHINGTON, July 6: A US soldier shot Sunday on the Baghdad University campus has died from his wounds, US military officials said.

The US Central Command said the soldier from the First Armoured Division died from his wounds at a field hospital where he was taken after the shooting.

The soldier was guarding Baghdad University’s campus in the center of the city when he was shot Sunday, a US military spokeswoman said. An officer at the scene said the soldier had been shot in the head.

Witnesses said a lone gunman brandishing a pistol escaped from the scene of the shooting, a campus cafeteria, adding that the soldier, who was accompanying coalition officials, had fallen to the ground.

journalist: A British journalist was shot dead by unknown assailants in Baghdad Saturday in the first killing of a reporter in Iraq since the United States declared the end of its war here at the beginning of May.

“I understand he was a freelance cameraman formerly with ITN,” deputy head of the British mission in Iraq, Jon Wilks, told AFP.

“We understand it happened around noon... near the college of arts in Aazamiyah,” in the northwest of the capital, he said.

The victim’s identity was not immediately released.

The mission said it was waiting for the man’s family to be contacted and declined to give any further information.

The death was the 14th of a journalist in Iraq since the United States invaded the country on March 20. Another two journalists are still listed as missing, although widely thought to have been killed during the war.—AFP