A journalist for Britain's Sunday Mirror newspaper has been killed by a roadside bomb while on patrol in Afghanistan, the Defense Ministry said on Sunday.
Defense correspondent Rupert Hamer was accompanying a U.S. Marine patrol to the northwest of Nawa in Helmand province when the vehicle he was in struck an improvised explosive device, the ministry said.
A U.S. Marine was also killed in the explosion. Sunday Mirror photographer Philip Coburn was wounded and is in a stable but serious condition, it said.
Hamer was the first British journalist to be killed in Afghanistan since U.S.-led forces began their offensive against the Taliban in October 2001.
He is the second western journalist to die there in as many weeks, highlighting the perils facing reporters embedded with NATO troops. Canadian journalist Michelle Lang was killed on December 30, also by a bomb which struck her armored vehicle
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