UK reporter, US Marine killed in Afghan blast
An explosion outside a small village in southern Afghanistan killed a veteran British war correspondent, officials said Sunday. It was the British media's first casualty in the conflict.
The blast, which also killed a US and an Afghan soldier with whom Sunday Mirror journalist Rupert Hamer was traveling, brings the number of reporters who have died in Afghanistan since the Sept. 11 attacks to 18, according to figures kept by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. (AP)
