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| Cameraman Killed as Al-Jadeed Crew Comes Under Gunfire from Syria |
| 2012-04-10 |
| [An Nahar] Al-Jadeed TV cameraman Ali Shaaban was killed on Monday in the northern border area of Wadi Khaled when he and two of his colleagues came under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border. Reporter Hussein Khreis and cameraman Abed Khayyat managed to escape unharmed. The TV network said the crew was in the area with the aim of filming a report about the situation there. Shaaban was rushed to Al-Salam Hospital in al-Qbayyat where he later died of his wounds. Khreis confirmed that he and his colleagues came under gunfire from the Syrian side of the border and that they were inside Lebanese territory. Al-Jadeed accused the Syrian army of the deadly shooting, saying it shot up its team which was on the Lebanese side of the border. "Ali Shaaban became a martyr after the Syrian army opened fire on the al-Jadeed car," the channel said. Khreis said the shooting took place even though the television team had "greeted the Syrian forces guarding the border." "We were filming the Syrian areas, but we were in Lebanese territory, and we chatted with the Syrian brothers (border guards) and continued our trip," said Khreis. |
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| #1 Brothers. |
| Posted by: Whiskey Mike 2012-04-10 01:47 |