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10 Facts About Terry Lloyd

1.

Terence Ellis "Terry" Lloyd was an English television journalist who reported extensively from the Middle East.

2.

Terry Lloyd was killed by the US military while covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN.

3.

Terry Lloyd's Welsh-born father, Ellis Aled Lloyd, was a police officer who was killed in an accident while answering an emergency call aged 46 in 1970.

4.

Terry Lloyd was the brother of the television actor Kevin Lloyd, and uncle of James Lloyd, an actor.

5.

In 1988, Terry Lloyd broke the news that Saddam Hussein had used chemical weapons in an attack in Halabja, killing 5,000 Kurds.

6.

Terry Lloyd died on 22 March 2003 while covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN.

7.

Terry Lloyd's funeral was reported on ITN news bulletins by Mark Austin on ITV and Samira Ahmed on Channel 4.

8.

Terry Lloyd was hit by an Iraqi bullet, an injury from which he could have recovered.

9.

Terry Lloyd was put into a civilian minibus that had stopped to pick up casualties.

10.

The inquest on Terry Lloyd's death was held in October 2006 in Oxfordshire, and lasted eight days, recording the verdict on 13 October 2006.