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One Kurdish journalist killed, 3 French journalists injured in Mosul
From Rudaw.net-Erbil
20-06-2017 - MOSUL, Iraq — A planted bomb exploded near four journalists, hitting three French nationals and a Kurd in the troubled Old Mosul district on Monday, as Iraqi forces push ISIS out of the group's last and symbolic holdout in the city.The Kurdish journalist, Bakhtiyar Haddad, who worked with the French team as a fixer and interpreter, was killed in the bombing, a friend of Haddad told Rudaw.
The other three journalists were wounded and they are now receiving treatment at a US base in the town of Qayyara in southern Nineveh Province.
Two of the injured French reporters have been identified as Veronique Robert and Stephane Villeneuve, according to France 2 television. The two were seriously wounded, Reuters reported citing a diplomatic source. The third, a freelance reporter who has not been identified, was lightly injured.
Posts on his Facebook page show Haddad, 41, helping a French-language weekly magazine to publish photos of ISIS militants of French nationality.
“Not everybody can find the photos of French ISIS militants who are in Mosul,” read his last Facebook post on Thursday. “[Only] experts can do it. This is again helping the Republic of France to find them again. Some of these people are back in France. The Paris Match magazine got these photos through me.”
French Special Forces enlisted Iraqi forces to hunt and kill French nationals who had joined ISIS in Iraq, according to Iraqi and French officers cited in a Wall Street Journal reported on May 29.
//www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/19062017
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