Croatian freelance cameraman Tihomir 'Tuna' Tunukovic was killed on 1 November, 1992 when a mortar bomb exploded in front of the BBC armoured vehicle he was driving in central Bosnia . The explosion, north of Travnik, occurred at a time when there was a reported ceasefire in the region. It caused the vehicle – the first of two in a convoy – to swerve off the road and down a ravine.

The second vehicle, carrying a Sky News team, came under fire and was forced to continue without stopping. The team later returned to the scene on foot to discover that Tihomir, 25, was dead. The vehicle had been holed by shrapnel.

BBC correspondent Allan Little, said 'Tuna came to the BBC when his own country was being torn apart by war. Many of the most striking and most powerful images of the conflict came from his camera. He hated the war, and wanted it to be over, but threw himself into documenting it, believing in the need to bear witness. In jest, we called him, Mr Valiant-For-Truth: he was brave, creative, generous. He was also gregarious, charming and funny , bursting with ideas and ambition, on the very brink of what would have been a brilliant career as a documentary film-maker'.

In 1991, freelance cameraman Nick Della Casa, his wife, Rosanna, and his brother-in-law, Charles Maxwell, were killed in a remote area of Northern Iraq. They had set off from Turkey in late March to cover Kurdish resistance to Saddam Hussein at the end of the first Gulf War.

Nick Della Casa, a freelancer for the Frontline News Television Agency, had earlier stayed in Baghdad during the bombing of the Iraqi capital and had provided dramatic pictures of the Allied attacks.

It appears that while trying to cross the mountains into Kurdistan , the group were murdered by a Turkish guide in a dispute over his fee. A detachment of Royal Marines found the bodies of the two men on 23 May. Rosanna Della Casa 's body was never recovered. 

Georgi Ivanov Markov, a Bulgarian dissident who worked for the BBC World Service as a journalist and broadcaster, was murdered in London in 1978. While waiting at a bus stop on 7 September, Markov, 49, was jabbed in the leg by a man holding an umbrella. That evening he developed a high fever and he died in agony three days later. A post-mortem revealed that a tiny platinum pellet containing traces of the poison ricin had been embedded in his calf.

The Bulgarian secret service carried out the attack, with assistance from the KGB, in retaliation for Markov's broadcasts criticising the Communist regime of Zhivkov Todor.

Ted Stoddart, 34, a BBC TV sound recordist, was killed by a landmine in Cyprus on 8 August, 1974. A convoy of media cars ran into a minefield on a road leading to Lapithos near Kyrenia. The BBC TV team, who were at the front of the convoy, remained in their car but when others started to leave their vehicles, Ted Stoddart got out and shouted at them to go back. He stepped on a mine and was killed. BBC reporters Simon Dring and Christopher Morris were also injured.

Paying tribute to Ted Stoddart's bravery, BBC Director General Charles Curran said: ‘When a tragedy like this happens, everybody realizes the risks journalists have to take in covering the news, whether they are reporters known to the public or backroom boys like Ted Stoddart.'

Bill Thomas, 35, was killed on 9 February, 1971 by an IRA landmine. He was in charge of the Transmitter Maintenance Team at Divis in Northern Ireland but was working on the Brougher Mountain transmitter at the time of the attack. He and a colleague, Malcolm Henson (see below), were targeted while travelling over the mountain in a civilian Land Rover; it was apparently mistaken for a British Army vehicle.

Malcolm David Henson, 23, also died in the Brougher Mountain landmine incident. He had joined the BBC two years earlier and had only recently been transferred from Crystal Palace to the Transmitter Maintenance Team. Three other men, all construction workers, were killed.