| Monday, November 12, 2001, updated at 14:07(GMT+8) |
Three Journalists Reported Killed in Afghanistan |
Three foreign journalists were killed in a Taliban ambush on Sunday in Afghanistan, The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
The Herald's reporter in Afghanistan said the three journalists killed -- French radio reporter Johanne Sutton, another French woman and a German man -- fell from an armored personnel carrier when it was attacked.
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Three foreign journalists were killed in a Taliban ambush on Sunday in Afghanistan, The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported on Monday.
The Herald's reporter in Afghanistan said the three journalists killed -- French radio reporter Johanne Sutton, another French woman and a German man -- fell from an armored personnel carrier when it was attacked.
It did not say where the attack occurred, but that the reporters were accompanying Commander Hassan of the Northern Alliance on an inspection of a Taliban trench they thought had surrendered.
Herald reporter Paul McGeough said he was among six reporters who came under mortar and machine gun attack as they sat on the roof of a Northern Alliance armored personnel carrier.
The vehicle was hit by a rocket-propelled grenade which did not explode on impact but exploded when it hit the ground. The vehicle turned quickly and three reporters tumbled off the roof.
"Three of us clung on for grim death and we survived," said McGeough.
The Herald said the armored personnel carrier left the three journalists behind and that their bodies were later recovered by alliance troops.
Radio France International (RFI) has said Sutton, 34, was on assignment for RFI when she was caught in an ambush and killed.
The Herald said the others killed were a French woman who worked for Luxembourg-based radio RTL and a male reporter for the German magazine Stern.
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