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RT reporter killed in Syrian Homs Province shelling

Khaled Alkhateb was fatally wounded when he was filming a report about the Syrian army’s offensive against Islamic State.

MOSCOW, July 30. /TASS/. A journalist working with Russia’s RT television channel has been killed in shelling by Islamic State (a terrorist organization outlawed in Russia) in Syria’s province of Homs, RT Arabic said on Sunday.

Khaled Alkhateb, 25, was fatally wounded when he was filming a report about the Syrian army’s offensive against Islamic State.

Apart from that,the channel’s cameraman Muutaz Yakoub received minor wounds and was taken to hospital.