Itv Reporter Terry Lloyd Killed
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LONDON (Reuters) - ITN says its veteran correspondent Terry Lloyd has been killed in Iraq after going missing under fire on Saturday, while the fate of his two colleagues remains unknown.
"ITN has received sufficient evidence to believe that ITV News correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed in an incident on the southern Iraq front war front yesterday," an ITN statement said on Sunday.
"We believe his body to be in Basra hospital, which is still under Iraqi control. Two members of his team -- Fred Nerac and Hussein Osman -- are still missing and ITN so far has no information on their whereabouts or condition."
Lloyd and his television crew went missing on Saturday after coming under fire, possibly from British forces, near Basra, while driving towards the port city in two vehicles.
The ITN statement said it believed U.S. or British forces had opened fire after seeing Iraqi "irregulars" travelling down the road in the same direction.
ITV`s award-winning correspondent Lloyd, 50, has reported extensively from Iraq, Cambodia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
"Terry was brave, he was determined and he was safety conscious," ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis said.
One crew member who escaped said the firing was coming from the direction of UK forces` positions. In London, the Ministry of Defence said they could have been caught in crossfire.
Cameraman Daniel Demoustier, who was with the three missing journalists, said they were being followed by two Iraqi vehicles when the firing started.
"I had to duck down straight away -- windows were exploding inside the car. I looked to my right side and the right door, where my correspondent (Lloyd) was, was open and he was not there anymore," Demoustier told the ITV channel on Saturday.
He said the car fell into a ditch and burst into flames and that the gunfire seemed to have come from "the British side".
The Ministry of Defence said on Saturday the ITN crew had gone through several checkpoints where they had been told to turn back. A spokesman said the journalists were between U.S. and British forces and Iraqi troops when they were hit.
Separately, an Australian journalist and one other person were killed on Saturday in a car bombing in northern Iraq that Kurdish officials blamed on a militant Islamic group.
Dozens of journalists are accompanying British and U.S. forces. Others are in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, which the U.S.-led forces have been bombing and intend to capture.
"ITN has received sufficient evidence to believe that ITV News correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed in an incident on the southern Iraq front war front yesterday," an ITN statement said on Sunday.
"We believe his body to be in Basra hospital, which is still under Iraqi control. Two members of his team -- Fred Nerac and Hussein Osman -- are still missing and ITN so far has no information on their whereabouts or condition."
Lloyd and his television crew went missing on Saturday after coming under fire, possibly from British forces, near Basra, while driving towards the port city in two vehicles.
The ITN statement said it believed U.S. or British forces had opened fire after seeing Iraqi "irregulars" travelling down the road in the same direction.
ITV`s award-winning correspondent Lloyd, 50, has reported extensively from Iraq, Cambodia, Bosnia and Kosovo.
"Terry was brave, he was determined and he was safety conscious," ITN chief executive Stewart Purvis said.
One crew member who escaped said the firing was coming from the direction of UK forces` positions. In London, the Ministry of Defence said they could have been caught in crossfire.
Cameraman Daniel Demoustier, who was with the three missing journalists, said they were being followed by two Iraqi vehicles when the firing started.
"I had to duck down straight away -- windows were exploding inside the car. I looked to my right side and the right door, where my correspondent (Lloyd) was, was open and he was not there anymore," Demoustier told the ITV channel on Saturday.
He said the car fell into a ditch and burst into flames and that the gunfire seemed to have come from "the British side".
The Ministry of Defence said on Saturday the ITN crew had gone through several checkpoints where they had been told to turn back. A spokesman said the journalists were between U.S. and British forces and Iraqi troops when they were hit.
Separately, an Australian journalist and one other person were killed on Saturday in a car bombing in northern Iraq that Kurdish officials blamed on a militant Islamic group.
Dozens of journalists are accompanying British and U.S. forces. Others are in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, which the U.S.-led forces have been bombing and intend to capture.
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Probably just one of those unfortunate misunderstandings that are sadly inevitable in war.