Mosul battle: Mine blast kills French and Iraqi journalists
A French journalist and an Iraqi journalist have been killed by a mine explosion in the Iraqi city of Mosul. Stephan Villeneuve, a video journalist, and Bakhtiyar Haddad, his fixer, were reporting on an advance by Iraqi forces against Islamic State militants. Two other French journalists were injured, one of them seriously, by the blast […]A French journalist and an Iraqi journalist have been killed by a mine explosion in the Iraqi city of Mosul.
Stephan Villeneuve, a video journalist, and Bakhtiyar Haddad, his fixer, were reporting on an advance by Iraqi forces against Islamic State militants.
Two other French journalists were injured, one of them seriously, by the blast in the Ras al-Jadah district west of the Old City on Monday.
