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Russian Journalist Killed In Iraq
May 07, 2007
Russian photographer Dmitry Chebotayev (AFP)
Dmitry Chebotayev and six U.S. coalition soldiers died of injuries after their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb on May 6 in Iraq's Diyala Governorate.
The 29-year-old Chebotayev was a Moscow-based freelance photographer for the Russian edition of "Newsweek" magazine, Russia's "Kommersant" daily, and the European Pressphoto Agency (epa).
(AFP, Interfax, ITAR-TASS)