US sniper kills TV soundman
2005-08-28 20:28
Baghdad - US forces in Baghdad on Sunday shot dead a Reuters television soundman and wounded a cameraman, Iraqi police said.
"American soldiers opened fire on the team, killing the soundman and wounding the cameraman before detaining him," the police said.
The crew had arrived at the scene of an earlier rebel attack on an Iraqi police convoy in al-Adel district, west of Baghdad, which killed two and wounded one, police said.
Reuters said 35-year-old Waleed Khaled was shot in the face and took at least four bullets to the chest, while cameraman Haidar Kadhem was wounded in the back.
"I heard shooting, looked up and saw an American sniper on the roof of the shopping centre," Kadhem told colleagues who arrived at the scene before he was detained by US troops, it said.
- SAPA