Mourners pay farewell to Hiro, a reporter killed in action

Hiro Muramoto, 43, Japanese cameraman shot dead in bloody clashes between Thai troops and anti-government protesters last Saturday was cremated Sunday after a service attended by hundreds of mourners. "I could not believe my ears when I confronted the great shock and the unbelievable reality," a Tokyo-based television cameramen said in a tearful address read at the funeral.

"The Freedom of the Press Committee of the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan mourns the killing of Reuters cameraman Hiroyuki Muramoto in Bangkok while covering the clashes between the government troops and protesters, and condemns the barbaric act of targeting a well-known Japanese journalist, and offers our sincere condolences to his family." http://www.fccj.or.jp/node/5215