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Journalist killed in Georgian fighting

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[2008-08-10]

Two Journalists Killed in Tskhinvali Region


From media.ge

 

 

Two journalists Alexander Klimchuk and Grigol Chikhladze have been killed while covering the conflict between Russia and Georgia over South Ossetia, the Echo of Moscow radio station informs.


The journalists entered breakaway S. Ossetia together with the Georgian armed forces. Alexander Klimchuk ran Caucasus Press Images photo agency. Formerly he cooperated with Komsomolskaya Pravda and Moskovskii Komsomolets, in addition to Itar-Tass News Agency, Photoexpress studio and EPA agency. Klimchuk’s photos were published in the Newsweek magazine, The New York Times and Le Monde.
Grigol Chikhladze, according to the information posted on Caucasus Press Images website, actively collaborated with the USA and the European mass media.

And earlier it had been reported that the NTV and Vesti TV camera crews faced fire in the breakaway republic of S. Ossetia. The NTV producer Piotr Leonid, Vesti TV military correspondent Alexander Sladkov, cameraman Leonid Losev and video engineer Igor Uklein have been injured.
According to the Associated Press Turkish journalists-reporters and a cameraman have been slightly injured during the war activities in the conflict zone. They were taken to hospital. Their lives are out of danger.

 

Source: media.ge

Published Sunday, August 10, 2008 4:43 PM by DanKubiske

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