Police conduct autopsy on journalist killed in Syria

TOKYO, Japan - A car carrying the body of Mika Yamamoto, a Japanese journalist killed in Syria while covering the civil war there, leaves a university hospital in Tokyo's Bunkyo Ward after police conducted an autopsy on Aug. 26, 2012. Yamamoto, 45, an award-winning journalist, was shot dead Aug. 20 in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo during a clash believed to have been between rebels and forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad's regime.

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• 2012/8/26 00:00:00

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