Two Syrian reporters have been killed in Aleppo, Lebanon-based Al-Mayadin TV reported on Tuesday.
The reporters were killed in Aleppo’s Meydan district during the ongoing armed clashes between government troops and rebels.
Neither the names of the reporters nor the media organizations they were working for have been identified.
Earlier on Tuesday the Embassy of Japan in Syria, which is currently located in Jordan, reported that Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto, 45, was killed in Aleppo. Yamamoto worked for the Japan Press information agency.
Syrian opposition sources said that three reporters, one Turkish and two Arab, have disappeared in Syria.
They are not the first journalists to lose their lives or go missing in the current Syrian conflict. In February, veteran U.S. war correspondent Marie Colvin, who had been working for The Sunday Times of London, and a young French photographer, Remi Ochlik, were killed as Syrian security forces shelled the rebel city of Homs.
Since March 2011, the Syrian conflict has claimed up to 20,000 lives, according to estimates by various Syrian opposition groups. The West is pushing for President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, while Russia and China are trying to prevent outside interference in Syria saying the Assad regime and the opposition are both to blame for the bloodshed.
