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A French journalist has been killed in the Syrian city of Homs, a photographer with the AFP news agency reports. Other reporters, including one Belgian, were injured when a mortar shell hit them, he said.
Syria’s Interior Ministry acknowledged that an incident involving foreign journalists had taken place in the city, which is one of the centres of protest against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, but said it had no details.
The blast took place during a visit authorised by the Syrian authorities, who have strictly limited foreign journalists’ access to the country since the protests started.
This is the first death of a Western journalist during the unrest.
Six Syrians were also killed, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which called for an inquiry.
Opposition activists have accused the authorities of being behind the attack.
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A great journalist
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Gilles Jacquier, Prize Albert Londres, was a wonderful and brilliant journalist. Calm, with an overview on the world, courageous but not "crazy head", spontaneous, in research of the real soul and sound of our planet, from Afghanistan to Kosovo, from Palestinian territories to the arab spring.
The Jury of the Albert Londres Prize is deeply sadened by his death.
Olivier Weber, writer, reporter, member of the Albert Londres Prize.
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