International News Safety Institute

26 September 2012

Maya Nasser

Incident

Iran TV reporter killed, another wounded in Syria

Cause of death

Crossfire

Details

A reporter for Iran's Press TV was killed by a sniper and the Damascus bureau chief for Iran's Al-Alam channel wounded in the Syrian capital on Wednesday, their employers in Tehran said.

"Press TV correspondent Maya Nasser has been killed by sniper fire in the Syrian capital, Damascus," Press TV said in a bulletin on its news website. Both Press TV and Al-Alam said on their websites that Al-Alam's Damascus bureau chief, Hussein Mortada, a Lebanese national, was wounded. 

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Source: AFP

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