Mick Deane AP FILE PHOTO
LONDON 鈥擜 veteran TV cameraman for Britain鈥檚 Sky 黑料社 was shot and killed while covering the deadly violence in Cairo on Wednesday, the channel said.
Mick Deane, a 61-year-old father of two, had worked at Sky for 15 years. He had been based in Washington and, for the past two years, in Jerusalem.
The head of Sky 黑料社, John Ryley, paid tribute to a 鈥渢alented and experienced鈥� journalist while Prime Minister David Cameron said he was 鈥渟addened鈥� by the news.
Deane was shot and wounded while reporting on the crisis in Cairo in a team with the channel鈥檚 Middle East correspondent Sam Kiley.
Deane received medical treatment, but died shortly afterwards.
None of the other members of the team were injured, Sky said.
The channel鈥檚 foreign editor Tim Marshall, who was clearly emotional as he described Deane on air, said: 鈥淗e was a friend. Our hearts go out to his family.
鈥淗e died doing what he鈥檇 been doing so brilliantly for decades.鈥�
Sky鈥檚 political editor Adam Boulton described him as 鈥渢he nicest, the best, the bravest.鈥�
Ryley said: 鈥淓veryone at Sky 黑料社 is shocked and saddened by Mick鈥檚 death.
鈥淗e was a talented and experienced journalist who had worked with Sky 黑料社 for many years.鈥�
At least 124 people were killed in the Rabaa al-Adawiya camp alone on Wednesday, according to an AFP count, after security forces stormed two huge Cairo protest camps occupied for weeks by supporters of ousted president Mohamed Morsi.
The Sky 黑料社 cameraman was the second journalist to be killed in Egypt on Wednesday.
Habiba Ahmad Abdel Aziz, a 26-year-old reporter for the Xpress supplement of the Dubai-based Gulf 黑料社, died as troops clashed with pro-Morsi protesters.
She was visiting Egypt, her home country, on holiday and was not working at the time.
Reporters Without Borders told AFP that four other journalists, all Egyptians, were injured in Wednesday鈥檚 clashes.
Three were photographers and cameramen while one was a reporter.