A British journalist has been killed in an explosion while covering the war in Afghanistan. Rupert Hamer, 39, the defense correspondent of the Sunday Mirror newspaper, was with the US Marines in Helmand province when he was killed by a roadside bomb. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Because sometimes we forget that some of the reporters go through the same risks and hardships many of our troops see every day. But sometimes to do not get seen in the same light as our service-members.<\/p>\n
Tina Weaver, Editor of the Sunday Mirror, said: \u201cRupert believed that the only place to report a war was from the front line and, as our defense correspondent, he wanted to be embedded with the US Marines at the start of their vital surge into southern Afghanistan. He left on New Year\u2019s Eve with photographer Phil Coburn, determined to be there from the start. It was his fifth trip <\/strong>to Afghanistan.\u201d <\/p><\/blockquote>\nSo in closing leave you with this;<\/p>\n
David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary, said: \u201cRupert Hamer died in the course of important work informing the world about the situation in Afghanistan. I pay tribute to his efforts, and those of Philip Coburn, undertaken in the most dangerous of circumstances.\u201d Jim McLean, a Times journalist and friend of Hamer since childhood, said: \u201cRupert was a born reporter. There was never another job he would have wanted to do.\u201d <\/p>\n
He leaves a wife and three children aged 6, 5 and 19 months. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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