Azamat Ali Bangash

Samaa TV

April 17, 2010, in Orakzai, Pakistan

Bangash, 34, a cameraman and correspondent, was killed in a suicide bombing while covering food distribution in a refugee camp near Orakzai, in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas near the border with Afghanistan. He was the second Samaa journalist killed in a suicide bombing in two days.

As many as 47 refugees from fighting in northwest Pakistan died when a pair of suicide bombers, striking minutes apart, attacked a distribution line, news reports said. The BBC and CNN said the Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the explosions, which targeted the Shia refugees. The bombing was one of five in northwest Pakistan that took place between April 14 and April 17, 2010.

Bangash, who died at a nearby field hospital, was survived by a wife and three children.

Medium: Television

Job: Broadcast Reporter, Internet Reporter

Gender: Male

Local or Foreign: Local

Type of Death: Dangerous Assignment

Suspected Source of Fire: Political Group

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