Sky News Cameraman Killed In Egypt

[boston bean]

Sky News cameraman Mick Deane has been shot and killed in Egypt this morning.

Mick, 61, had worked for Sky for 15 years, based in Washington and then Jerusalem.

The married father of two was part of our team covering the violence in Cairo. The rest of the team are unhurt.

The Head of Sky News John Ryley described Mick as the very best of cameramen, a brilliant journalist and an inspiring mentor to many at Sky.

http://news.sky.com/story/1128530/sky-news-cameraman-killed-in-egypt

Very sad..

[quinnox]

1. my condolences to his family

obviously he was a very brave man, to be there in Egypt doing his job at this time, when it is very unstable and dangerous.

[cali]

2. worse than that

dozens of members of the press beaten and detained by Egyptian military- 3 dead.
go on defend it. after all most of the dead are just Muslim Brotherhood members. Never mind that there are women and children among those brutally murdered. Never mind that the protests were peaceful. Hell, you have to slaughter those inhuman fundamentalists to build a democracy. And brutalize the press.

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Sky News said Mick Deane, 61, was shot while covering the Egyptian government’s breakup of protest camps in Cairo, the capital, according to the Associated Press. He died soon after, AP said, citing Sky.

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Also killed Wednesday was Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, a 26-year-old reporter for Xpress, a sister publication of Dubai’s Gulf News. She died near the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque.

Egyptian social media users also reported that a local photographer was shot during the clashes, but that death could not be confirmed.

At least a dozen other journalists were detained, injured or threatened Wednesday as the violence raged. The detained reporters included Reuters’ Tom Finn, who tweeted his arrest and eventual release, and Newsweek’s Mike Giglio, who wrote an account of his detention for The Daily Beast on Wednesday morning. In it, Giglio said he and several other journalists, including the freelance photographers Mahmoud Abou Zeid and Louis Jammes, were beaten in police custody after identifying themselves as journalists.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/husband-of-former-post-reporter-is-killed-in-egypt/2013/08/14/98bc06b0-04f1-11e3-88d6-d5795fab4637_story.html
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[dipsydoodle]

3. Shot dead by sniper