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Japanese Reporter Killed in Syria

HeadlineAug 21, 2012

In Syria, a Japanese reporter covering the country’s civil war has been killed in the city of Aleppo. Mika Yamamoto was embedded with the opposition Free Syrian Army when she was caught in the middle of a gun battle on Monday. Yamamoto was the fourth foreign journalist to die in Syria since March 2011.

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