Two journalists on staff of Polish television killed in Iraq

KUWAIT-CITY, May 7 (Itar-Tass) - Two journalists on staff of Polish television have been killed in Iraq on Friday morning.

An onlooker who watched the tragedy said that the car carrying the newsmen came under gunfire opened by unknown gunmen on a road near Latifia south of Baghdad.

The gunfire was opened from a passing car of the Japanese make. One of the two Polish journalists was instantaneously killed, and the other one received a gunshot wound. A journalist from Algeria who was in the same car got out to explain that there were peaceful people in the car, but he was shot dead, the onlooker said.

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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen ambushed a Polish TV crew south of Baghdad on Friday, killing a producer and a correspondent who was Poland's best-known war reporter, Iraqi and Polish officials said.

Waldemar Milewicz, a correspondent for Poland's TVP television, and Mounir Bouamrane, a dual Algerian-Polish national, died in the gunfire in Mahmoudiyah, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, Polish television said.

Cameraman Jerzy Ernst had his forearm shattered in the attack and was recuperating at a U.S. hospital in Baghdad.

Ernst told Polish television they had set out Friday, only their third day in Iraq (news - web sites), in their car for Najaf, which is the scene of heavy fighting between U.S. troops and Shiite Muslim militiamen loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

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Monika Scislowska | Warsaw, Poland

Television reporter Waldemar Milewicz, killed in Iraq on Friday along with his producer, was Poland's best-known war correspondent and the winner of numerous journalism awards for his reporting from Chechnya, Afghanistan and other conflict zones.

President Aleksander Kwasniewski called Milewicz's death a loss for the entire nation.

"Poland's most outstanding journalist has been killed," the PAP news agency quoted Kwasniewski as saying on a trip to London. "It is a great tragedy for his relatives and a great loss for us all."

He stressed, however, that Milewicz's death will have no effect on Poland's role in the occupation of Iraq, where the country leads a multinational force that includes 2 400 of its own troops.

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Everyone is at risk except those who lied and started this immoral war!