Taras Protsyuk
Year: 2003
Nationality: Iraq
Killed by: Military Officials
Location: Baghdad, Iraq
Press organization: Reuters
What's Taras Protsyuk's story?
Protsyuk, a cameraman for Reuters, died after a U.S. tank fired a shell at the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq’s capital, where most journalists in the city were based during the war. At around 12 p.m., a shell hit two hotel balconies where several journalists were monitoring a battle in the vicinity. José Couso, a cameraman for the Spanish television station Telecinco, also died in the attack.
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