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Sky News photographer Mick Deane was killed in Egypt Wednesday, the news organization announced. Security forces Wednesday stormed camps in Cairo that were occupied by people protesting the ouster of President Mohamed Morsi.
In the story, Tim Marshall, Sky News’ foreign affairs editor, describes Deane as “a friend, brave as a lion but what a heart… what a human being.”
Habiba Ahmed Abd Elaziz, a reporter for the United Arab Emirates paper XPress, was also killed, Jack Mirkinson reports. And Reuters photographer Asmaa Waguih was reportedly shot and taken to the hospital.
And Daily Beast reporter Mike Giglio said on Twitter he was arrested, along with photographers Mahmoud Abou Zeid and Louis Jammes, and beaten.
Cops took my laptop, opened it on the scene. Then punched me in the head until I gave them the password. Laptop, wallet, cell not returned.
— Mike Giglio (@mike_giglio) August 14, 2013
By the way, contrary to some continued Twitter reports, I am not dead. Nor injured.
— Mike Giglio (@mike_giglio) August 14, 2013
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