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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Name the British war correspondent who died recently.
A
Clare Hollingworth
B
Rosy Herzog
C
Bradley Wiggins
D
David R Syiemlieh
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Paul Douglas, 48, and James Brolan, 42 Douglas, a cameraman, and his soundman Brolan, were working for CBS and embedded with the US Army’s 4th Infantry Division. They were killed by a car bomb, which exploded whilst they were on patrol with American and Iraqi soldiers.

Detailed explanation-2: -During World War II, journalist Ernie Pyle, America’s most popular war correspondent, is killed by Japanese machine-gun fire on the island of Ie Shima in the Pacific. Pyle, born in Dana, Indiana, first began writing a column for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain in 1935.

Detailed explanation-3: -Colvin lost the sight in her left eye while reporting on the Sri Lankan Civil War. She was struck by a blast from a Sri Lankan Army rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) on April 16, 2001, while crossing from a Tamil Tigers-controlled area to a Government-controlled area; thereafter she wore an eyepatch.

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