Media casualties of war

At least 11 journalists and media staff have died in the war so far, including two British TV reporters.

Channel 4 News correspondent Gaby Rado, 48, was found dead after falling from the roof of a hotel in northern Iraq at the end of last month.

His death came a week after ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd, 50, was killed in what was thought to be a "friendly fire" incident in Iraq.

Lloyd was travelling towards Basra with cameramen Fred Nerac and Daniel Demoustier, and translator Hussein Osman when their vehicles came under fire on March 22.

Demoustier managed to escape but Lloyd was killed. Nerac and Osman are still missing.

Demoustier said their car was shot by tank fire and set ablaze.

Today, Tareq Ayoub was killed in an airstrike on the al-Jazeera office in the city.

The office was almost completely destroyed by two missiles and another cameraman was injured, the network said.

The nearby Abu Dhabi TV office was also targeted, the station reported. A group of people were seen carrying a wounded man to a jeep belonging to Abu Dhabi TV. He was then rushed to hospital.

Soon afterwards, a US tank fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad. TV cameraman Taras Protsyuk, a 35-year-old Ukrainian national based in Warsaw, later died.

Spanish cameraman Jose Couso, 37, a father-of-two, also died in hospital after being wounded at the hotel.

A reporter with the Spanish newspaper El Mundo and a journalist from a German magazine were killed yesterday following an Iraqi rocket attack on a US forces operations centre south of Baghdad.

BBC cameraman Kaveh Golestan, 52, an Iranian, was killed on Wednesday in northern Iraq when he stood on a landmine as he climbed out of his car.

BBC producer Stuart Hughes was injured in the incident.

The corporation's world affairs editor John Simpson was wounded on Sunday in a friendly fire incident in which an American fighter jet bombed a convoy of US and Kurdish forces.

A total of 21 people were killed in the incident, including Simpson's 25-year-old translator

Kamaran Abdurazaq Mohammed.

US journalist Michael Kelly, 46, editor-at-large for The Atlantic Monthly magazine and a Washington Post columnist, died in an accident on Friday in a Humvee military vehicle while on assignment in Iraq.

American television journalist David Bloom, 39, who worked for NBC, died from a blood clot on Sunday while travelling with the US infantry.

Paul Moran, an Australian cameraman, was killed in an apparent car bombing in north eastern Iraq on March 22.

The International Federation of Journalists has accused both sides of endangering the lives of media staff covering the war.

Sarah de Jong, human rights officer for the Brussels-based organisation, said the death toll was unusually high.

The IFF estimates that between 3,000 and 4,000 journalists are covering the war in Iraq and neighbouring countries with around 660 "embedded" in front line units.

"We are very, very concerned, I think it is a fluid situation not only in Baghdad but everywhere else in Iraq where there are coalition troops and where there is still opposition from Iraqi soldiers or militia," she said.

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