At lunchtime today (Wednesday 2 April) a four person BBC team arrived at Kifri, a town in the southern part of the Kurdish area of Iraq, on a filming trip.
Cameraman Kaveh Golestan stepped out of their car on to a mine and was killed instantly.
Producer Stuart Hughes was caught by the blast and has injured his foot.
Correspondent Jim Muir and the local translator were unhurt.
Iranian
cameraman Kaveh Golestan, 52, had worked for the BBC in a freelance
capacity for about three years.
He
became the BBC's contract cameraman in Tehran, Iran in September
2000, and had worked for many western news organisations.
He
leaves a wife and an 19-year-old son.
Stuart
Hughes, 31, has been taken by ambulance to the American Military
Hospital in Sulaymaniya for treatment.
BBC
Director of News, Richard Sambrook, said: "Kaveh Golestan was
an outstanding photojournalist who had worked in support of freedom
of expression in his native Iran and elsewhere and was well known
to many western news organisations.
"He
had worked with the BBC for many years.
"Our
deepest sympathy goes to his family and friends.
"This
once again underlines the dangers faced by news teams covering the
war in Iraq."
Notes
to Editors
The biographical detail in this press release was updated in October 2007 to reflect later information received.
Kaveh
Golestan website
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