09 August 2023 | IFJ
Reporter killed by roadside bomb in Syria
Explosion
Firas al-Ahmad, a reporter from the privately owned Sama TV, was killed on August 9 when a roadside bomb exploded in al-Shiah district in the southern province of Daraa, near the Jordanian border.
The journalist was travelling in a vehicle with two security officers of the Syrian armed forces, who were also killed in the bomb explosion, when returning from a counter narcotics operation in Daraa province, Syrian News Agency reported.
