ITALY: ARRIVAL OF BODIES OF ITALIAN AND SPANISH JOURNALISTS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN AMBUSH

Record ID: 648158

  • Title: ITALY: ARRIVAL OF BODIES OF ITALIAN AND SPANISH JOURNALISTS KILLED IN AFGHANISTAN AMBUSH
  • Date: 23rd November 2001
  • Summary: (W5) ROME, ITALY (NOVEMBER 22, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. SLV ITALIAN MILITARY PLANE CARRYING COFFINS TAXIING ON TARMAC AT AIRPORT (3 SHOTS) 0.16 2. MV SIDE DOOR OPENING WITH TWO COFFINS OF ITALIAN JOURNALIST MARIA GRAZIA CUTULI (DRAPED IN ITALIAN FLAG) AND SPANISH JOURNALIST JULIO FUENTES INSIDE (3 SHOTS) 0.30 3. MV /SLV COLLEGEAUES AND FRIENDS OF JOURNALISTS WALKING TOWARDS PLANE; LIFTING EQUIPMENT MOVING TOWARDS PLANE; SLV MILITARY GUARD STANDS TO ATTENTION (5 SHOTS) 0.51 4. SLV SISTER OF MARIA GRAZIA CUTULI, DONATA WALKING OUT OF PLANE WITH WIFE OF JULIO FUENTES, MONICA; FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES WATCHING, HUGGING 1.17 5. SLV PLANE; MV FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES WATCHING, HUGGING AND KISSING (2 SHOTS) 1.30 6. MV COFFINS CARRIED OFF PLANE BY GUARD OF HONOUR (6 SHOTS) 2.35 7. SLV COLLAGUES AND FRIENDS WATCH DEPARTURE; MV WIFE OF JULIO FUENTES, MONICA, BEING ESCORTED AWAY FROM PLANE (2 SHOTS) 2.47 8. SLV FRIENDS AND COLLEAGUES WALKING (4 SHOTS) 3.12 9. MV COFFINS ON BACK OF TRUCK BEING DRIVEN AWAY WITH MILITARY ESCORT MARCHING ALONGSIDE (2 SHOTS) 3.40 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 8th December 2001 12:00
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  • Location: ROME, ITALY
  • Country: Italy
  • Reuters ID: LVA7KUY2ZP9XJA3MW5AGZEGOF3P3
  • Story Text: The bodies of the Italian and Spanish journalists
    killed in Afghanistan on Monday have arrived in Italy.

    Collegeaues and friends were waiting at Romes Ciampino
    aiport on Thursday (November 22) to see the return of the
    bodies of Italian journalist Maria Grazia
    Cutuli and Spanish journalist Julio Fuentes who were killed
    earlier this week, along with two journalists from Reuters,
    when gunmen ambushed their convoy travelling to Kabul.

    Cutuli worked for the Italian newspapaer Corriere della
    Sera and Julio Fuentes for El Mundo.

    Cutuli's brother and sister, Donata and Mario, along with
    Monica, the wife of Julio Fuentes, had travelled from Pakistan
    with the simple pale wood coffins in the Italian military
    aircraft.

    Drapped in an Italian flag, Cutuli's coffin was carried by
    a guard of honour from the plane alongside that of Fuentes.

    An autopsy will be carried out on Cutuli's body she is
    returned to her home town of Catania in Sicily where her
    funeral will take place on Saturday. Fuentes coffin will be
    taken by a Spanish military plane back to Madrid.


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