London Times: Reporter 'shot by American troops on way to hospital'

Reporter 'shot by American troops on way to hospital
By Times Online and PA

The ITN war correspondent, Terry Lloyd, was shot in the head by American soldiers after being wounded in a gunfight in southern Iraq, an inquest heard today.

A statement from an Iraqi witness, who claimed to have been present when Lloyd died on the road to Basra in March 2003, described how the journalist was injured but alive after his car was attacked by US soldiers on one of the first days of the war.

But he was then shot again on his way to hospital.

The account was part of the evidence given today by Nicholas Walshe, an ITN journalist appointed by the broadcaster to investigate the death of Lloyd, a 50-year-old correspondent, on March 22, 2003.

Mr Walshe told Oxfordshire's Assistant Deputy Coroner, Andrew Walker, that his source had seemed "very credible"....

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