They were killed when the building they were in was shelled by Syrian government troops. The celebrated Sunday Times foreign correspondent was killed alongside French photographer Remi Ochlik as they reported on the plight of civilians in the besieged Syrian city of Homs. US photographer Chris Hondros, 41, died in the same incident. Hetherington was an acclaimed international photographer was killed by a mortar blast while covering fighting between local militia and forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi. Sunday Mirror photographer Philip Coburn was seriously injured. He was killed by a roadside bomb which struck a patrol vehicle, also killing a US marine and an Afghan soldier. Hamer was defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror, and had been embedded with US marines. North-west of Nawa, Helmand Province, Afghanistan He was shot by an unidentified gunman while filming a demonstration in the capital, Mogadishu. They were killed by a car bomb, which exploded whilst they were on patrol with American and Iraqi soldiers.Īnglo-Swedish journalist Adler was a former contributor to Channel 4 News, who was freelancing in Somalia for several Swedish newspapers. A coroner later ruled that she had felt under pressure from the BBC and had feared that she would lose her job if she had refused to take on the dangerous assignment.ĭouglas, a cameraman, and his soundman Brolan, were working for CBS and embedded with the US Army’s 4th Infantry Division. She was shot outside a hotel having been targeted by what is now believed to have been gunmen with links to al-Qaeda.
Peyton had just arrived in Somalia to film a series of reports on the war-torn country. Frank Gardner, BBC security correspondent, was also seriously injured in the attack. He was shot dead in the Saudi capital Riyadh by suspected al-Qaeda sympathisers. The gunman was never found and it is believed that Wild had not been carrying a camera or anything to identify him as a journalist.Ĭumbers was a freelance Irish cameraman working for the BBC. He was shot dead whilst hailing a cab outside Baghdad Museum.
Wild was an inexperienced freelance journalist who had travelled to Iraq to cover his first war. An inquest concluded he had been murdered, but no Israeli soldiers were prosecuted. He was killed by Israeli troops who continued to fire after the reporter he was with shouted “we are British journalists”. Miller was a freelance cameraman who was filming a documentary for HBO on the Israel-Palestine conflict. An inquest recorded the verdict of “unlawful killing by US forces”. He was caught in crossfire between Iraqi and US troops. Lloyd was a correspondent for ITV News and had been working as an independent reporter not embedded with military forces. He was killed in the Russian republic of Ingushetia during a clash between Russian forces and the Chechen group with which he was travelling. Scott was a freelance cameraman working for Frontline television news agency. The Loyalist Volunteer Force claimed responsibility for his murder but nobody has been prosecuted. He was shot while walking home from his local pub after refusing to bow to pressure to stop publishing stories about the activities of Loyalist gangsters. O’Hagan was an investigative journalist who worked for the Dublin and Belfast-based Sunday World. Here is the list of UK-based journalists killed since 2000: Two were killed inside the UK: Lyra McKee in 2019, and Martin O’Hagan in 2001, both in Northern Ireland. Three of those were killed covering the wave of uprisings and violence which erupted across the Middle East from early 2011 – Sky News cameraman Mick Deane, freelance photographer Tim Hetherington, and Sunday Times foreign correspondent Colvin. Since 2000, 16 UK journalists (including US-born Marie Colvin) have been killed in the course of their reporting – mostly during conflicts. Phillips’ family have said he was “lost doing the important job of investigative journalism”. Two bodies were found and it was confirmed on Friday 17 June that dental records had identified one of them as Phillips. Phillips and an expert accompanying him, Bruno Araujo Pereira, went missing in a remote area of the western Amazon rainforest in Brazil on Sunday 5 June in the course of reporting for a book on deforestation and its potential solutions. Dom Phillips has become the 16th UK journalist to be killed since 2000 in the course of reporting.