A female Japanese reporter has been killed after being caught in gunfire while covering clashes in
Syria's northern city of Aleppo, the Japanese foreign ministry said today.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said three other journalists were missing while covering the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad's regime
Japan's foreign ministry confirmed the dead reporter was Mika Yamamoto, 45, said an official in charge of Japanese nationals' safety abroad.
Yamamoto was working for the Japan Press news agency .
French reporter Gilles Jacquier was killed on January 11 at central Syria's Homs, where American journalist Marie Colvin and French photographer both perished on February 22.