TV Cameraman Slain Covering Chechen War
<i> Associated Press</i>
MOSCOW —
Free-lance cameraman Farkhad Kerimov has been killed while covering the war in Chechnya for Associated Press Television.
Kerimov, 46, was shot May 22 between the villages of Shuani and Vedeno, 27 miles south of the Chechen capital, Grozny. His remains, buried by local residents in a cemetery near Shuani, were identified by his brother on Monday.
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