Ahmed Hasan Ahmed, Syria

Ahmed Hasan Ahmed, who works for Xinhua as a video journalist based in Egypt, was severely wounded by a stray bullet while covering the Syrian presidential election on June 4. After a long coma on a life-support machine in a Syrian hospital, Ahmed Hasan Ahmed eventually passed away on June 20.

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