MAZEN DANA, the Reuters cameraman killed by US troops in Iraq, was buried yesterday in the West Bank city where he braved bullets to chronicle the tragedy of Israeli-Palestinian bloodshed.

THE US army yesterday admitted shooting dead an award-winning journalist in Iraq after soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.

The US military offered its condolences today to the family of an award-winning journalist who shot dead in Iraq by American soldiers who mistook his camera for a rocket propelled grenade launcher.

A cameraman for the Reuters news agency was shot dead today while working near a US-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, the London-based news agency said.