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Russian state journalist killed by ‘stray bullet’ at Crimea base

Russian soldiers march as a local waves a Russian flag outside a military base in the village of Perevalne, outside Simferopol, Crimea in 2014 [File: Ivan Sekretarev/AP]

A Russian female journalist working for a leading Kremlin-backed media group has died in a shooting accident at a military training ground in Russian-occupied Crimea, Moscow-installed officials and state media outlets have reported.

Svetlana Babayeva, who was killed on Friday, headed up the Russian state-owned Rossiya Segodnya media group’s bureau in Simferopol, the second-largest city on the Crimean peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

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