Tributes To British War Reporter Killed Working With US Troops In Afghanistan -- Times Online
A British journalist has been killed in an explosion while covering the war in Afghanistan. Rupert Hamer, 39, the defence correspondent of the Sunday Mirror newspaper, was with the US Marines in Helmand province when he was killed by a roadside bomb.
Hamer, who had also covered conflicts in Iraq, the Middle East and Central Asia, is the first British journalist to die in Afghanistan since 2001. He leaves a wife and three children aged 6, 5 and 19 months.
A US Marine and an Afghan soldier were killed in the blast, which targeted the vehicle in which they were travelling in the Nawa district of Helmand. Philip Coburn, the newspaper’s photographer, was seriously injured, as were four other US Marines.
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My Comment: Our prayers are for the families tonight.