French journalist killed by shrapnel from Russian shell in eastern Ukraine
by Lorenzo Tondo in Lviv and Jon Henley in Paris from World news | The Guardian on (#5ZT0M)
Journalist was in an evacuation vehicle in Sievierodonetsk, the largest city in Donbas still in Ukrainian hands
A French journalist has been killed after an armoured evacuation vehicle in which he was travelling was hit by shrapnel from a Russian shell in the city of Sievierodonetsk in eastern Ukraine, Ukrainian and French authorities have said.
News channel BFMTV said in a statement it was immensely saddened" to announce the death of Frederic Leclerc-Imhoff, 32, who had worked for it for six years and was on his second tour of the conflict, adding that the journalist and cameraman was killed on the road to Lysychansk.
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