Australian Cameraman Killed, 3 British TV Reporters Missing in Iraq

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Australian Cameraman Killed, 3 British TV Reporters Missing in Iraq

An Australian cameraman was killed in a suicide car bombing in northern Iraq Saturday night. British main commercial TV news service ITN said on Saturday that its three-man crew was missing after they came under fire while traveling to Basra in southern Iraq.

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An Australian cameraman was killed in a suicide car bombing in northern Iraq Saturday night.

The Australian Associated Press reported that Freelance cameraman Paul Moran, 39, was working for the Australian Broadcast Corporation (ABC) and killed instantly when the taxi exploded next to him in the northern town of Sayed Sadiq while ABC correspondent Eric Campbell survived the attack.

Nine other people were injured in the bombing.

According to the report, security officials of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan said they believed the Ansar al-Islam group, which Washington claimed has links with al-Qaeda, was responsible for the bombing outside the village of Khurmal which was targeted by cruise missiles early Saturday.

Three British TV reporters missing

British main commercial TV news service ITN said on Saturday that its three-man crew was missing after they came under fire while traveling to Basra in southern Iraq.

ITN television reporter Daniel Demoustier and his three other colleagues Terry Lloyd, Fred Nerac and Hussein Osman came under fire at Iman Anas, near Basra as they drove towards the city in two vehicles, ITN told Xinhua.

Demoustier was injured but was able to get to safety. He was not able to see what happened to his three other colleagues, ITN said. At present, they are still missing.

There were British and Iraqi forces in the area at the time when the three reporters were missing, ITN said.

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