The two were traveling home when they were stopped by two cars full of gunmen and forced to exit their car.
(NEW YORK) - Two Iraqi ABC News broadcast journalists were killed in Iraq, ABC News President David Westin said this morning.
33-year-old Cameraman Alaa Uldeen Aziz, and 26-year-old soundman Saif Laith Yousuf, were returning home from work at the ABC News Baghdad bureau yesterday afternoon when their car was reportedly ambushed and they were killed by unknown assailants.
Aziz and Yousuf were traveling home when they were stopped by two cars full of gunmen and forced to exit their car.
The two were unaccounted for overnight and their deaths were confirmed this morning.
According to ABC News Aziz is survived by his wife, his two daughters and his mother.
Yousuf leaves behind his fiancee, his mother and brothers and sisters.
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