DHAKA: A team of reporters from Sky News Arabia has gone missing in the contested city of Aleppo in northern Syria.

The Abu Dhabi-based channel said on Thursday, reports gulfnews.com.

Since Syria’s uprising erupted in March 2011, the country has become the most dangerous in the world for journalists, according to press freedom advocate groups.

Dozens of journalists have been kidnapped and more than 25 have been killed while reporting in Syria since the conflict began.

Sky News Arabia said it lost contact on Tuesday morning with reporter Ishak Moctar, a Mauritanian national, cameraman Samir Kassab, a Lebanese national, as well as their Syrian driver whose name is being withheld at his family’s request.

Sky News Arabia chief Nart Bouran says the crew was on assignment primarily to focus on the humanitarian aspects of the conflict in Aleppo.

The channel appealed for any information on the team’s whereabouts and for help to ensure the journalists’ safe return.

BDST: 1736 HRS, OCT 17, 2013
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