Soldiers have carried two flag-draped coffins through a central Beirut square packed with thousands of Lebanese mourners who turned out for the funeral of a top intelligence official and his bodyguard.

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 top Reuters cameraman was shot dead by American soldiers while filming outside a Baghdad prison targeted in a deadly mortar attack.

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.