Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana was shot dead by US troops outside the Abu Gharib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad. The photo shows him during a demonstration calling for the end of the killing of journalists by the Israeli army in Hebron. Photo by AFP
U.S. troops shot dead a Reuters cameraman while he was filming on Sunday on the outskirts of Baghdad. Mazen Dana, 43, filmed outside Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad which had earlier come under a mortar attack. The U.S. military acknowledged on Sunday that its troops had "engaged" a Reuters cameraman, saying they had thought his camera was a rocket propelled grenade launcher. Dana is the second Reuters cameraman to be killed since the U.S.-led force invaded Iraq to topple Saddam Hussein. He is married with four children.