Press TV Turkey Reporter Killed in Suspicious Car Accident
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian news channel Press TV’s correspondent in Turkey, Serena Shim, was killed in a suspicious car accident near the Turkey-Syria border on Sunday.
Shim was killed in the crash as she was on a working mission in Turkey to cover the ongoing war in the strategic Syrian town of Kobane.
She was going back to her hotel from a report scene in the city of Suruc in Turkey's Urfa Province when her car collided with a heavy vehicle. The identity and whereabouts of the truck driver remain unknown, Press TV reported.
Shim, an American citizen of Lebanese origin, covered reports for Press TV in Lebanon, Iraq, and Ukraine.
On Friday, she told Press TV that the Turkish intelligence agency had accused her of spying probably due to some of the stories she has covered about Turkey’s stance on the ISIL terrorists in Kobane and its surroundings, adding that she feared being arrested.
Shim said she was among the few journalists obtaining stories of militants infiltrating into Syria through the Turkish border, adding that she had received images from militants crossing the Turkish border into Syria in World Food Organization and other NGOs’ trucks.
Shim had rejected accusations against her, saying she was “surprised” at this accusation “because I have nothing to hide and I have never done anything aside my job.”
