French TV reporter Gilles Jacquier has been killed in the Syrian city of Homs, the first Western journalist to die in the country's current unrest.
He was on a government-authorised trip to the city, the France 2 channel reported. According to the BBC Gilles Jacquier is among nine people killed in a grenade attack in Homs. A colleague said that minutes earlier they had interviewed some people at a pro-government gathering.
In 2003 Gilles Jacquier received the French Pulitzer prize equivalent, the Prix Albert Londres, for his work on the second Palestinian intifada. He took a bullet wound to his side during the 2003 intifada when a shot came through his bullet-proof vest. He had also won an award for work in Afghanistan.
(Source : Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union)
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