Two foreign journalists have been killed and five wounded, including two Americans, during fighting between revolutionaries and forces loyal to deposed President Nicolae Ceausescu.
Danny Huwe, 42, a Belgian reporter for the Belgian VTM television, was shot and killed by snipers late Sunday when he tried to enter the capital from Sofia, Bulgaria, by car, VTM said Monday.On Saturday, Jean-Louis Calderon of France's La Cinq TV station was crushed to death by a tank in Bucharest as he was reporting on the fighting.
Emre Aygen, 30, a reporter for the Turkish state television TRT was seriously wounded early Monday on the outskirts of Bucharest, said Hale Tuna, a TRT official in Ankara, Turkey. Tuna said Aygen was wounded in the head by sniper fire as he traveled with a group of journalists.
The four other journalists were wounded in the western city of Timisoara, and three ambulances sent into Romania from Yugoslavia to evacuate the journalists Monday. All four were expected to survive.
Three of the journalists - John Daniszewski of The Associated Press, John Tagliabue of The New York Times, and an Italian photographer - were wounded in separate incidents while driving in cars.
A Yugoslav reporter was shot while dashing through the streets of the western Romanian city, 20 miles east of the Yugoslav border.
A Yugoslav diplomat was grazed by a bullet.
A group of uniformed men on Saturday night ordered a car carrying Daniszewski and a Yugoslav reporter, Ljuba Pajic, to stop, then opened fire as soon as Daniszewski stepped on the brakes.
One bullet struck his arm and two others grazed his head, the Yugoslav Consulate said, quoting Pajic, who was not injured. The assailants fled after robbing the reporters, the consulate said.
Daniszewski arrived in Yugoslavia Monday, where he was hospitalized in satisfactory condition.
It was not immediately clear whose side the assailants were on.
The fighting, in which security forces loyal to Ceausescu are pitted against anti-Ceausescu civilians and their allies in the army, has been fierce in Timisoara, the cradle of the insurgency that toppled the hard-line Communist dictator in a week.
Louis D. Boccardi, the president and general manager of the AP, said: "The AP is doing everything possible to help John Daniszewski.
"The events in Romania graphically show the dangers that correspondents, AP and others, experience in reporting world news and the courage and bravery they display in doing their jobs."
Tagliabue was wounded in the back by a sniper who fired on a car carrying him and other reporters, said Bernard Gwertzman, foreign editor of The New York Times. He was reported in satisfactory condition at a Timisoara hospital. Tagliabue is the younger brother of Paul Tagliabue, commissioner of National Football League and a Washington lawyer.