Sympathy for Injured Photojournalist

Ulster Unionist MLA for East Antrim Roy Beggs Jnr has expressed his concern and sympathy for the newspaper photographer Philip Coburn, a fellow native of Larne who has been seriously injured in a bomb attack in Helmand province in Afghanistan.

Mr Beggs said: "My thoughts are with Mr Coburn and his family and they come to terms with the severe injuries he has suffered in Afghanistan. My sympathy also goes out to the family of Mr Hamer the Mirror correspondent who lost his life in the same bomb attack.

This is another reminder of the highly dangerous circumstances in which journalists and news photographers have to work, when reporting where our troops are currently engaged overseas."