Sniper kills Jazeera reporter in Syria's Daraa: TV

January 19, 2013 00:25

AFP reports: A sniper shot dead Al-Jazeera reporter Mohammed Hourani in the southern Syrian province of Daraa today, the Qatar-based satellite television network said.

"Mohammed Hourani was shot dead by a regime sniper in Basr al-Harir in the province of Daraa, while he was covering the clashes there," the pan-Arab news channel said.

Before joining Al-Jazeera, the Arab world's most widely viewed news channel, Hourani was an activist in the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad, the broadcaster said.

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