Journalist with French TV dies from wounds suffered in Mosul blast

Veronique Robert, a journalist with a French television station has died from wounds she sustained in a landmine blast in Mosul last week.

Ms Robert, who was Swiss, was one of three journalists to have died as a result of last Monday's explosion in the Iraqi city, The Local reported.

Stephan Villeneuve, a French journalist,  and Iraqi Kurdish reporter Bakhtiyar Addad were also killed in the blast.

They were working for the French news programme, Envoyé spécial, which airs on France 2, a public television channel.

The journalists were reporting on the battle for Mosul, accompanying Iraqi special forces. as they tried to recapture the city from the Islamic State.

Jihadists had laid numerous booby traps in the narrow streets of the city.

Robert, who had two grown up sons, was an experienced journalist and expert on the Middle East who had worked for a number of major news outlets in both France and Switzerland including Le Figaro, a French broadsheet and Paris Match magazine.

Francoise Nyssen, the French culture minister, paid tribute to a "great war correspondent".

According to the latest estimate by Reporters without Borders, Robert was the 29th journalist to have been killed in Iraq since 2014.

Source: AFP