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Media deaths since start of war
08/04/2003 15:14 - (SA)
Paris - Fierce fighting for control of central Baghdad killed a reporter and two cameramen on Tuesday, bringing to at least 12 the number of deaths among journalists and staff since the war began 20 days ago.
Following is a chronology of those killed and missing since the war began March 20:
April 8
Two cameramen die after a US tank fires on a Baghdad hotel housing most of the foreign media. The dead are identified as Reuters cameramen Taras Protsyuk, 35, a Ukrainian national, and Jose Couso, 37, who worked for private Spanish television station Telecinco. Another three Reuters staff are injured.
Tareq Ayub, a 34-year-old correspondent for Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television, dies following a missile strike on the station's Baghdad offices. He was a Jordanian of Palestinian origin. Al-Jazeera accuses the US military of deliberately targeting its facilities.
April 7
Christian Liebig, 35, a correspondent with German weekly Focus, and Julio Anguita Parrado, 32, from Spanish daily El Mundo, are killed after a missile attack on a US operations centre.
April 6
US NBC television journalist David Bloom, 39, "embedded" with US troops in Iraq dies near Baghdad, apparently of natural causes.
Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a 25-year-old Kurdish translator working with the BBC, dies after a US plane bombs a Kurdish-US convoy in northern Iraq in a "friendly-fire" attack.
April 4
Washington Post editorial columnist Michael Kelly is killed when the vehicle in which he is travelling with US troops plunges into a canal while evading Iraqi fire on the approach to Baghdad's main airport.
April 2
Kaveh Golestan, 52, a prize-winning Iranian photographer working as a cameraman with the BBC, dies when he steps out of his car on to a landmine in Kifri, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.
March 30
Gaby Rado, 48, covering the war for British television network ITV, is killed when he falls from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulaymaniya, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. The circumstances of his death are not known.
March 22
Australian cameraman Paul Moran, 39, on assignment for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is killed in a suicide bombing in the northern Iraqi town of Khurmal, under Kurdish control.
ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd, 50, is killed near Basra, apparently by US-British fire, and an ITN cameraman is injured. Lloyd's French cameraman 43-year-old Fred Nerac and Lebanese interpreter Hussein Osman are still missing.
- AFX
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