Tamer al-Awam

Year: 2012

Nationality: Syria

Killed by:

Location: Aleppo, Syria

Press organization: Freelance

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Al-Awam, a documentary filmmaker and freelance journalist, died from shrapnel wounds he sustained from shelling as he covered clashes between Syrian government forces and the Free Syrian Army in Aleppo a day earlier, according to news reports based on opposition activist accounts. He died in a nearby field hospital, the reports said.

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