On Sunday 6th April, in the latest incident of friendly fire, an American aircraft hit a convoy of American forces and Kurdish fighters in the north of Iraq killing and injuring many.

Travelling with the convoy was a BBC team including John Simpson and Panorama producer Tom Giles.

A Kurdish translator working with the BBC team was badly injured in the attack, and died shortly afterwards.

Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed had been with the BBC since mid March. He was 25 years old and unmarried.

Sympathies

The wreckage of one of the convoy

The rest of the team sustained shrapnel wounds which were treated at the American military hospital in Arbil.

None has been detained. They were: Fred Scott camera; Dragan Petrovic fixer; Craig Summers safety adviser. There were also a fixer and two drivers in the BBC party. They too received minor injuries.

Our sympathies and our thoughts are with Kamaran's family. We are in contact with them, and are offering them all the support we can.