MOSCOW, 1 March. As a result of the attack near the Syrian-Turkish border injured four journalists.
About this informed the head of the Russian Center for reconciliation of the warring parties in the Syrian Arab Republic the General-Lieutenant Sergey Kuralenko.
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He brought information about the attack through established channels to the American Center to reconcile the warring parties in Syria, in Amman (Jordan).
“From 12.04 to 12.10 1 March 2016 in the group of foreign and Russian journalists was the shelling from large-caliber artillery A. p. Kisimba. The firing was from the area of N. p Bdama and the Syrian-Turkish border. Produced 8 shots of heavy artillery that exploded in the 150-450 m from journalists,” – said in his statement, Kuralenko.
According to him, “the shelling has injured and damaged four journalists (from China, Canada, Bulgaria and Russia)”. “They were given help, the condition is satisfactory” – said Korolenko.
Syria is the most dangerous for journalists country
At the end of December 2015, the international human rights organization “reporters without borders” issued a report, which named Syria the most dangerous country for journalists, as in 2014, and 2013.
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The current including on the territory of the Arab Republic of terrorist group “Islamic state” (IG, is prohibited in the Russian Federation) is responsible for the deaths of 40% of all those killed in 2015 to journalists, said the report “Reporters without borders”.
“Statistics show that international efforts to reduce violence against journalists does not give the desired effect”, – said the representative of “Reporters without borders” Britta Hilpert.
