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TV crew killed in Iraq bombing
30/01/2008 15:39 - (SA)
Baghdad - An Iraqi television cameraman and his driver were killed in a roadside bombing on Tuesday north of Baghdad, al-Forat TV reported.
The female correspondent and camera assistant travelling with them were wounded.
Alaa Abdul-Karim al-Fartoosi, 29, was travelling with the three colleagues when a roadside bomb went off next to their car in Balad, 80km north of Baghdad, said Haider Kadhum, a al-Forat news editor.
Kadhum did not identify the others in the party by name.
The crew was on assignment to report on the second anniversary of the February 2006 bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in Samara, 95km north of Baghdad, Kadhum added.
Al-Forat TV is affiliated to a powerful Shiite political party, the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council.
According to the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders, at least 207 journalists and media workers were killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003, not counting the latest deaths.
The report, issued early this month, showed only one foreign journalist - a Russian - was among 48 news personnel killed last year.
Another media advocacy group, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists, lists at least 125 journalists and 49 media support staffers killed since the war began, with about 85% of that number Iraqis.
Al-Fartoosi is survived by his wife and two children.
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