ANSD : Yemen state news journalist killed in shelling

SAT 23 - 11 - 2024

Date: Aug 31, 2018
Source: The Daily Star

Yemen state news journalist killed in shelling

_{Agence France Presse}
ADEN, Yemen: Yemeni journalist Ahmed Saleh al-Hamzi, head of the state news agency's Baida bureau, was killed in shelling Thursday, local media announced.

Saleh, who headed the state-run Saba news agency's office in the embattled Baida province, was killed covering the fight between pro-government forces and Yemen's Houthi rebels, Saba said.

The news agency said he was killed in a rebel attack.

Aref al-Amri, head of the Baida media office, told AFP Saleh had been killed by shelling early Thursday morning.

Abdullah al-Qadry, a Yemeni photographer and videographer who contributed to AFP, was killed in shelling on the border of Baida province, in central Yemen, in April.

Qadry died while on assignment for Yemen's Belqees television. A local security source said Houthi rebels were behind the shelling.

Since March 2015, at least 15 journalists have been killed in Yemen, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists.

The conflict in Yemen has raged for three years, pitting pro-government forces backed by an Arab coalition against Iran-backed Houthi rebels.

More than 10,000 people have been killed and more than 54,000 injured in what the United Nations has called "the world's worst humanitarian crisis".

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