Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed

Kamaran Abdurazaq Muhamed, a 25-year-old BBC translator, was working near Mosul, in northern Iraq, with news reporter John Simpson.

He was wounded and later died on April 6, when a US F-15 warplane dropped a bomb on a convoy of US special forces and Kurdish civilians with whom Simpson's team were travelling.

Simpson paid tribute to his translator, saying: "Kamaran was a charming, brave, resourceful character. It's an absolute tragedy."

The horrific accident, the worst US "friendly fire" incident of the Iraq war, caused the deaths of 18 people and injured 45. The F-15, which had been asked to destroy an Iraqi tank, instead dropped a bomb directly on the convoy as it headed towards a town captured by Kurdish forces.

Two F-15 fighters circled "quite low overhead", said Simpson, before the bomb was dropped on the journalists and soldiers. It fell metres from where Simpson was standing, resulting in what he later described as a "scene from hell".