A Palestinian television journalist has been killed while he was giving a live report to camera on deadly clashes between United States forces and insurgents in the heart of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
Mazen al-Tomaisi, 28, worked for Saudi television Akhbariya and for the pan-Arab satellite channel Al-Arabiya.
He was killed when a US helicopter fired missiles on a mob that had gathered around a US tank in Baghdad.
The tank had been set ablaze in a car bomb attack, one of a string of bombings across the capital on Sunday (local time).
Blood spattered across the cameraman's lens and screams were heard by viewers of the Al-Arabiya report.
Tomaisi, from the West Bank town of Idna, is the fourth Palestinian journalist killed in Iraq.
An Iraqi cameraman and an Iraqi photographer were also slightly wounded by flying shrapnel during the attack.
An Iraqi official says a total 13 people were killed, including two children, and 55 wounded during the battle in Haifa Street.
The area is a suspected bastion of Saddam Hussein loyalists, where insurgents and US troops clash regularly.
The US military say four soldiers were also wounded.
I wonder if that will cut down on the coverage. What an idiot.