British Sky News cameraman Mick Deane is one of 149 dead Wednesday morning during a raid on activists camped in Rabaa al-Adawiya Square in Cairo, where thousands of Muslim Brotherhood supporters had staged a six-week sit-in.
Deane, 61, was shot and killed. He had worked for Sky News for 15 years, first based in Washington, D.C., and then Jerusalem.
The married father of two was part of the Sky team covering the violence in Cairo. The rest of the team was not hurt.
"Mick Deane was a really lovely, lovely guy," said John Ryley, head of Sky News. "He was great fun to work with, he was an astonishingly good cameraman who took some brilliant pictures.
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"But he also had a first class editorial brain. He had brilliant ideas.
"He was also good fun after the job was done. He was laid back, and I'm really going to miss him, like lots of people here."
Sky News' foreign affairs editor Tim Marshall said that he was "brave as a lion, but what a heart... what a human being."
"Micky was humorous in a dry way, he was wise and when you're on the road with small teams, people like that are diamonds to be with."
Fellow foreign correspondents echoed Marshall's comments, noting his professionalism and good-humored resilience in general and as a cancer survivor.
Prime Minister David Cameron tweeted his condolences.
I am saddened to hear of the death of cameraman Mick Deane, covering Egyptian violence. My thoughts are with his family and @SkyNews team.
— David Cameron (@David_Cameron) August 14, 2013
Another journalist, a photographer, was reported dead on Twitter. That death has not yet been confirmed.
