Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Sky News cameraman, Dubai newspaper reporter killed in Egypt violence

A cameraman for British broadcaster Sky News and a Dubai-based newspaper reporter were killed during violence in Egypt on Wednesday, the AP quotes their employers as saying. Sky said Mick Deane, 61, was shot and wounded while covering the violent breakup of protest camps in the capital, Cairo. It said he was treated for his injuries but died soon after. The rest of the Sky crew was unhurt. The Gulf News, a state-backed newspaper in the United Arab Emirates, reported on its website that journalist Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, 26, was shot dead near the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in Cairo as security forces moved in on a sit-in by supporters of ousted president Mohammed Morsi. The newspaper said she had been on annual leave and was not on assignment at the protest for the XPRESS, a sister publication that she worked for. Sky said Deane had worked for the broadcaster for 15 years in the United States and the Middle East. He was married with two sons.

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