Reuters reported on Sunday that two of its television journalists, producer Ayat Basma and cameraman Ezzat Baltaji, went missing in Syria on Saturday night.
The two “had been expected to cross into Lebanon by road at approximately 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, where they had arranged for a taxi to pick them up from the border,” the agency added.
The last known contact with the journalists was on 5:22 p.m. on Saturday when Baltaji send an SMS to a friend in Beirut telling him the two were leaving Syria.
“Reuters is deeply concerned about our two Reuters television colleagues who went missing in Syria on Saturday. We have reached out to the relevant authorities in Syria and have asked for their help in securing our colleagues' safe return home,” the agency quoted its editor-in-chief, Stephen Adler as saying.
“Reuters is deeply concerned about our two Reuters television colleagues who went missing in Syria on Saturday. We have reached out to the relevant authorities in Syria and have asked for their help in securing our colleagues' safe return home,” the agency quoted its editor-in-chief, Stephen Adler as saying.
Reuters added that Syrian authorities said they were investigating the disappearance.
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