ITN journalist Terry Lloyd was shot in the head by US troops as he was driven to safety after a gunfight during the Iraq war, it was claimed yesterday.
Fellow journalist Nicholas Walshe told an inquest that a number of Iraqis said they had witnessed the shooting.
Veteran reporter Lloyd, 50, died covering the conflict for ITV when his team were caught in the crossfire between US and Iraqi forces near Basra in southern Iraq on March 22, 2003.
Mr Walshe said one witness told him his minibus had been commandeered to pick up casualties from an Iraqi gunfight.
Lloyd appeared to have been shot in the shoulder and had to be lifted on to the vehicle. He said the witness then told him: "Terry was then shot in the head by US troops."
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