A Syrian photographer working for the German press agency DPA has been killed in an airstrike in the Hama countryside, where the government forces of Bashar al-Assad are involved in fierce fighting with an advancing rebel opposition group.
DPA, or Deutsche Presse-Agentur, said its photographer Anas Alkharboutli was killed while “accompanying and reporting on the advance of the revel alliance,” in a story published on its website Wednesday. A local journalist who witnessed the strike told CNN the 32-year-old photojournalist had been near the town of Morek, about 17 miles north of Hama, at the time.
Abu Muhammad al-Jolani, of the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham group, said in a statement aimed at the civilians of the predominantly Christian area that he had urged his fighters to protect them.
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