El Mundo
April 7, 2003, in outside Baghdad, Iraq
Parrado, a correspondent for the Spanish daily El Mundo, died in an Iraqi missile attack while accompanying the U.S. Army's 3rd Infantry Division south of the capital, Baghdad. Both Parrado and Christian Liebig, a German journalist for Focus magazine who was also killed in the incident, were embedded with the division, according to Agence France-Presse.
According to Focus editor-in-chief Helmut Markwort, the two men had decided not to travel with the unit to Baghdad, believing they would be safer at the base. Two U.S. soldiers were also killed during the attack, and 15 were injured. Parrado was the second El Mundo correspondent to have been killed in conflict in almost two years: Correspondent Julio Fuentes died after gunmen ambushed his convoy in Afghanistan in 2001.
Medium: Print
Job: Print Reporter
Beats Covered: War
Gender: Male
Local or Foreign: Foreign
Freelance: No
Type of Death: Crossfire/Combat-Related
Suspected Source of Fire: Military Officials
