Embedded US reporter killed in accident

THE Washington Post said yesterday its editorial columnist Michael Kelly was killed in an accident involving a Humvee vehicle while travelling with US troops in Iraq.

Kelly, the first US journalist to die in the war and the first fatality among 600 journalists embedded with coalition forces, was reporting with the US Army’s 3rd Infantry Division when the accident happened, the paper said.

Kelly was a conservative columnist known for withering criticisms of former president Bill Clinton and his vice president Al Gore, and also worked for the New Republic and Atlantic Monthly magazines.