BBC World News reports: A Japanese journalist, Mika Yamamoto, has been killed reporting on fighting in Aleppo, Syria, Japan’s foreign ministry confirms.
Yamamoto, 45, was a war correspondent with the Tokyo-based Japan Press news agency.
She was with a colleague, who identified her body, when she was killed, a ministry spokesman said.
It is not clear when she died but reports of an Asian journalist wounded in gunfire first emerged on Monday.
Her body has been transferred to Turkey, Masaru Sato, a Japanese foreign ministry official in Tokyo, told the Associated Press.