A cameraman working for the BBC in northern Iraq has been killed after stepping on a landmine.

Producer Stuart Hughes, who was working with Kaveh Golestan, was also injured in the explosion, but correspondent Jim Muir and a local translator escaped unhurt.

The incident happened when the four men were driving near the town of Kifri.

Mr Golestan got out of the car and stepped on to the landmine. He was killed instantly, a BBC statement said.

Mr Hughes, who is from Cardiff, suffered injuries to his foot and is being treated at a US medical unit near Sulaymaniyah.

Mr Golestan was a Pulitzer-prize winning freelance cameraman who worked for the BBC's Tehran bureau.

"The incident highlights the dangers our news crews face all the time in Iraq. Be assured that their safety is always our first priority and that we are doing all we can to ensure their wellbeing."

Mr Golestan is the latest of several journalists to die reporting the war, now in its 14th day.

ITN correspondent Terry Lloyd was killed when the vehicle he was in was hit in what is thought to have been a 'friendly fire' incident on 22 March. Two of his colleagues are missing.

On Sunday, veteran Channel 4 reporter Gaby Rado was found dead in the car park of a hotel in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq. It is thought he had fallen off the top of the hotel.

And an Australian cameraman, Paul Moran, was killed in a car bomb in the northern Iraqi town of Khurmal on 22 March.