CNN employees killed in Iraq
2004-01-27 20:16
Baghdad - A driver and a translator-producer working for CNN were shot and killed on Tuesday by unidentified assailants outside Baghdad, the network said.
CNN said in a news broadcast that the pair were returning from an assignment in southern Iraq in a two-car convoy that came under attack in the outskirts of the capital.
It identified the two men as translator-producer Dureid Issa Mohammed and driver Yasser Khateeb.
The head of a CNN cameraman in the second car was grazed by a bullet, but he was safe, the network said.
It said correspondent Michael Holmes was also in the car along with several other people but none of them were hurt.
It gave no other details.
- AP