On June 19, 2019, an unidentified individual shot Hamza Turkia, a freelance photographer and videographer at the time working for French news agency Agence France-Presse, in the hand and leg while the journalist was covering clashes between forces allied with the internationally recognized Government of National Accord and the self-styled Libyan National Army in Tripoli, the journalist and his colleague told CPJ.
Turkia told CPJ via messaging app that he was embedded with Government of National Accord forces at the time of the incident, and was filming the clashes when the building he was in was hit by machine-gun fire. He said two bullets passed through a wall and struck him, one in his finger and one in his left thigh.
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