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Israeli troops shot British journalist in neck: autopsy
JERUSALEM (AFP) -
An autopsy has found that British television journalist James Miller who died last week in the southern Gaza Strip (news - web sites) was shot in the neck by Israeli troops, public radio reported.
The autopsy carried out at Abu Khabir forensic institute near Tel Aviv with a British doctor present found that the freelance journalist was hit last Friday by an M-16 assault rifle bullet fired by soldiers facing him, it said.
The journalist, wearing a helmet and bullet-proof vest, was struck in the neck. He was treated on the scene by soldiers before being evacuated by helicopter to an army camp, where he died.
A senior Israeli officer said Sunday that Miller could have been shot from behind by Palestinian gunfire.
Miller, 35, was shot in the town of Rafah near Egypt's border as he was filming a stand-up for a documentary he was making on the army's destruction of hundreds of homes of militants in the Palestinian territories.
An army spokesman expressed "regret" at the death, but pointed out Miller had "taken great risks by being in a virtual war zone". The army and Palestinian militants were trading gunfire during a house demolition, he said.
The Briton was the fourth journalist killed by the Israeli army since the September 2000 outbreak of the Palestinian uprising against occupation.
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