PARIS, April 8 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) - The killing of three media people on Tuesday, April 8, in two separate attacks by American forces brought to 12 the number of deaths among journalists and other media staff since the unleashing of the U.S.-led war on March 20, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

Following is a chronology of those killed and missing since the war began:

April 8

- Two cameramen die after a U.S. tank fires on a Baghdad Palestine Hotel housing most of the foreign media. The dead are identified as Reuters cameramen Taras Protsyuk, 35, a Ukrainian national, and Jose Couso, 37, who worked for private Spanish television station Telecinco. Another three Reuters staff are injured.

- Tareq Ayyoub, a 34-year-old correspondent for Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television, dies following a missile strike on the station's Baghdad offices. He was a Jordanian of Palestinian origin. Al-Jazeera accuses the U.S. military of deliberately targeting its facilities.

April 7

- Christian Liebig, 35, a correspondent with German weekly Focus, and Julio Anguita Parrado, 32, from Spanish daily El Mundo, are killed after a missile attack on a U.S. operations center.

April 6

- U.S. NBC television journalist David Bloom, 39, "embedded" with U.S. troops in Iraq dies near Baghdad, apparently of natural causes.

- Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a 25-year-old Kurdish translator working with the BBC, dies after a U.S. plane bombs a Kurdish-U.S. convoy in northern Iraq in a "friendly-fire" attack.

April 4

- Washington Post editorial columnist Michael Kelly is killed when the vehicle in which he is traveling with U.S. troops plunges into a canal while evading Iraqi fire on the approach to Baghdad's main airport.

April 2

- Kaveh Golestan, 52, a prize-winning Iranian photographer working as a cameraman with the BBC, dies when he steps out of his car on to a landmine in Kifri, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

March 30

- Gaby Rado, 48, covering the war for British television network ITV, is killed when he falls from the roof of the Abu Sanaa hotel in Sulaymaniya, in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. The circumstances of his death are not known.

March 22

- Australian cameraman Paul Moran, 39, on assignment for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), is killed in a "suicide bombing" in the northern Iraqi town of Khurmal, under Kurdish control.