vrijdag, februari 18, 2005
EPA-stringer omgekomen in Pakistan
Allah Noor Wazir, a 28-year-old stringer for European Photo Agency (EPA), was killed along with another journalist in a roadside attack by unknown assailants in Pakistan on February 7. A third journalist was seriously wounded.
The journalists were ambushed in a vehicle while returning from covering a meeting between Pakistani authorities and a pro-al Qaeda tribal group in the northwest frontier of the country, according to EPA editor in chief Cengiz Seren. "The perpetrators disappeared after spraying their car with machine gun fire," he says.
Also killed in the attack was Amir Nawab Khan, a freelance cameraman for Associated Press Television News and reporter for the Frontier Post. Anwar Shakir, a stringer for Agence France-Presse, was wounded. A fourth journalist escaped without injury.
Wazir was the second EPA stringer to be killed in recent months. Last October, Iraqi stringer Karam Hussein was gunned down outside his house in Mosul by unknown assailants.
Bron: PDN.
The journalists were ambushed in a vehicle while returning from covering a meeting between Pakistani authorities and a pro-al Qaeda tribal group in the northwest frontier of the country, according to EPA editor in chief Cengiz Seren. "The perpetrators disappeared after spraying their car with machine gun fire," he says.
Also killed in the attack was Amir Nawab Khan, a freelance cameraman for Associated Press Television News and reporter for the Frontier Post. Anwar Shakir, a stringer for Agence France-Presse, was wounded. A fourth journalist escaped without injury.
Wazir was the second EPA stringer to be killed in recent months. Last October, Iraqi stringer Karam Hussein was gunned down outside his house in Mosul by unknown assailants.
Bron: PDN.
# posted by Jan-Edward : 00:25
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