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BBC Journalists Shot in Saudi Arabia, One Killed

HeadlineJun 07, 2004

In Saudi Arabia, two BBC journalists were shot Sunday in a gun battle near Riyadh. Simon Cumbers, an Irish cameraman for the BBC was killed. BBC’s Security Correspondent Frank Gardner was seriously injured. They were filming the house of a member of Al Qaeda who was killed last year. Gardner is one of the BBC’s foremost experts on Al Qaeda.

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