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(回答先: ＴＶスタッフ、米軍の銃撃で死亡＝検問所で誤射か−バグダッド ［時事通信］【↑朝日新聞の“気遣い”がわかる】 投稿者 あっしら 日時 2004 年 3 月 19 日 18:46:35)
Second journalist killed in Baghdad
Friday 19 March 2004, 12:27 Makka Time, 9:27 GMT
A second Iraqi journalist working for Dubai-based satellite television channel al-Arabiya has died from his wounds a day after US troops shot at them in central Baghdad, the channel said.
Correspondent Ali al-Khatib died on Friday in hospital in Baghdad. The station's cameraman Ali Abd al-Aziz died on Thursday from a gunshot wound to the head after US troops opened fire on their car at a checkpoint.
Al-Arabiya on Thursday called the shootings a "horrid crime" and demanded an investigation. A member of the Iraqi Governing Council on Friday strongly condemned the US forces, saying the shooting was a "clear aggression".
"This is an absolutely clear aggression by the occupation forces against the media," Mohsin Abd al-Hamid told al-Arabiya.
"We've told them before not to behave like this...They have the right to defend themselves but not to kill people like this in the street at random," he added.
The driver of the car carrying al-Arabiya journalists said US troops fired at random after they sped away from the checkpoint when another car approached at speed.
A US military spokesman said troops had shot dead an Iraqi after his car ran through a checkpoint and hit a Humvee. He said the Iraqi was the only person in the car and had no information on whether any journalists were killed or wounded.
'Tragic event'
"It's a tragic event and we demand an immediate investigation and accountability concerning those who are responsible for this," an al-Arabiya spokesman told Reuters on Friday after news of the second death.
"They were shot when they were going away from the checkpoint, not approaching it, so they were shot from the back. This is what eyewitnesses from the bureau are saying," he added.
Before Thursday's incident, four journalists had been killed by US troops since the start of the war in Iraq a year ago.
Meanwhile, explosions and shootings have racked Iraq in what appears to be an intensification of anti-occupation resistance ahead of the first anniversary of the US-led invasion.
Explosions shook three Baghdad hotels used by foreign business people, contractors and media companies on Thursday evening, a day after a car bomb demolished another Baghdad hotel and killed at least seven.
Hotel guests said the blasts shook the Cedar and Rimal hotels, which face each other on a street in central Baghdad.
Cause unknown
It was not clear what caused the explosions.
A US helicopter came down on Thursday south of the flashpoint Iraqi town of Falluja, west of Baghdad, said witnesses.
But US military officials said they had no reports on the incident.
Earlier in Falluja resistance fighters fought occupation troops, leaving at least two civilians dead, including a child, according to witnesses.
Anti-occupation fighters fired rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) at the municipal council building, where a meeting was allegedly taking place between local officials and US occupation authorities. US helicopters circled the area.
US officials said eight occupation soldiers and a marine were injured. But witnesses said one US soldier was killed. There is still no independent confirmation.
Basra blast
In the southern city of Basra, a car bomb exploded as a British occupation patrol passed near a hotel, leaving the car’s driver and three civilians dead, according to police. A child was among those killed.
A man suspected of being involved in the bombing and got out of the vehicle before the blast was apparently caught by passers-by and stabbed to death, said Iraqi police.
At least 15 people were injured in the explosion, including three seriously, said hospital officials. No British occupation troops were wounded.
Compared to other areas in Iraq, the mainly Shia city of Basra has seen few attacks.
In the town of Baquba, assailants opened fire on a minibus carrying employees of the US-funded television station Diyala, killing three Iraqi journalists and wounding nine other employees.
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