Other colleagues have lost their lives working with and for the BBC on location around the world. They are remembered here.

Lola Almudevar died in a road accident in Bolivia in 2007. She was travelling from La Paz to cover political unrest in the city of Sucre.

Lola had been an award-winning Video Journalist for the BBC in Birmingham. She took a career break to travel in South America and, once in Bolivia, began writing for the Guardian and the San Francisco Chronicle and broadcasting for the BBC. Those who worked with Lola spoke of her huge energy and enthusiasm. She had a great love for story telling and a great love for Bolivia. Her insightful and lively journalism was coupled with a deep sense of humanity. She brought an under-reported region to the attention of thousands of radio listeners with her pieces for From Our own Correspondent in which she told the big stories through the lives of ordinary people.

Lola was just 29 when she died. A friend paid this simple tribute:
"The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long……. and you have burned so very, very brightly."

BBC News producer Peter Martini, 31, died in a road accident in Russia on July 10th, 1996. He was travelling in a lorry carrying BBC equipment back to the UK from Moscow following the Russian presidential elections. The collision happened on the main road between Novgorod and St Petersburg .

Peter had worked for the BBC for just over a year. He had studied Russian and worked as a travel representative in Russia before becoming a journalist. Foreign Editor Vin Ray said "Peter was a tireless and tirelessly cheerful personality, with a passion for Russia. He was a skilled and dedicated producer, especially in difficult situations, someone everyone enjoyed working with. His death left a huge gap among his colleagues".

The BBC's Southern Africa Correspondent, John Harrison, was killed in a car crash on March 9th, 1994 while working in Boputhatswana. He was on his way to a TV feed point when his car overturned at a local accident black-spot outside the capital, Mmabatho. John, 48, died from head injuries.

He had joined the BBC in 1983 as a Westminster correspondent, having previously worked in newspapers. The former Labour Party leader Neil Kinnock, who was a friend of John's, said: ‘His exuberance was unforgettable. He was a magnet for friendship, a communicable cure for gloom.' Fergal Keane, a fellow BBC correspondent in South Africa, described him in a poem written after John's death, as ‘a ship of life, bound for the shores of promise'.

Mohamed Massoum died in a plane crash in Afghanistan on April 27th, 1993 whilst travelling to the northern town of Mazar I Sharif. He was on his way to report on celebrations to mark the one-year anniversary of the overthrow of the former Soviet-backed regime. Heavy rain was assumed to be the cause of the crash.

Mohamed was employed as a translator and producer in the BBC bureau in Kabul. He also reported for the BBC Persian Service.

John Mathai, a Kenyan video technician for Visnews, was killed whilst working with the BBC in Addis Ababa in 1991, covering the overthrow of Ethiopia's Marxist regime. On May 28th he and his cameraman, Mohamed Amin, went with BBC correspondent Michael Buerk to film a fire at an ammunition dump. When the dump exploded, John was killed and Mohamed was badly injured. Michael Buerk later wrote: ‘John Mathai was a graceful and gentle man, the last person who should have met such an ugly death.'

Chester Wilmot
Chester Wilmot, an eminent war correspondent, was killed when a BOAC Comet jetliner crashed over the Mediterranean on January 10th, 1954. He was returning from Sydney after taking part in the BBC’s 1953 round-the-world Christmas broadcast.

Wilmot, 42, was an Australian journalist who had joined the ABC at the start of WW2. He reported from North Africa, the Middle East and the Pacific, before moving to the BBC in May, 1944. On D-Day he landed in France with the British 6th Airborne Division and covered many other major military operations in the final months of the war. He was present at the German surrender in May, 1945 and reported on the Nuremberg trials.