48 reporters killed worldwide in 2016: Study

Washington: At slightest 48 reporters have been killed this year, with Syria for a fifth uninterrupted year commanding a draft for a many lethal nation for journalism, a investigate showed.

The study, expelled by a Committee to Protect Journalists on Monday, showed that 14 reporters died in Syria alone, other some-more unsure countries were also in a Middle East, Xinhua news group reported on Tuesday.

Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia and Libya ranking second to sixth.

Of a 48 reporters who were killed with dynamic motive, 26 were killed in fight or crossfire, 18 were murdered and 3 were killed during dangerous assignments, and a news did not discuss a conditions of a rest of one.

An additional 27 reporters were purebred as being killed by different motives.

The organization started to keep record of publisher fatalities given 1992 and a deadliest year was 2012, when 74 reporters were killed.

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