Mika Yamamoto: 1st NEWvideo her last rerort . 2nd video Murdered she lay dead ..Graphic Images

	Mika Yamamoto: 1st NEWvideo her last rerort . 2nd video Murdered she lay dead ..Graphic Images Mika Yamamoto Dead: Japanese TV Journalist Killed In Aleppo Gunfight 18+ Adults Only - Warning - Not for Shock - Contains Graphic Images BEIRUT/TOKYO, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A Japanese woman journalist died of wounds sustained in a gunfight between Syrian forces and rebels in Aleppo on Tuesday, becoming the first Japanese national killed in the 17-month-old conflict. Mika Yamamoto, a 45-year-old award-winning journalist working for Tokyo-based independent news wire Japan Press, was fatally wounded while travelling with the Free Syrian Army, a Japanese foreign ministry official said. In a telephone interview with a Japanese TV news programme, fellow Japan Press reporter Kazutaka Sato, who was travelling with Yamamoto, said it appeared she was shot by government forces. "We saw a group of people in camouflage fatigues coming toward us. They appeared to be government soldiers. They started random shooting. They were just 20, 30 metres away or even closer," said Sato. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clash occurred in the Suleimaniya district of Aleppo, the scene of heavy fighting between government and rebel forces. Japan Press was not immediately available for comment. Its website said Yamamoto reported from Afghanistan under the Taliban and covered the 2003 Iraq war from Baghdad. Yamamoto's Iraq reporting won a Vaughn-Ueda prize given by the Japanese Newspaper Publishers and Editors Association and modelled after the US Pulitzers media awards. In April 2003 she <b>...</b>	From: DARLENEHUGHES123 Views: 1 0 ratings
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