On July 12 , 2007 , after several skirmishes in the area , two American AH-64 Apache helicopters observed a group of people milling around on a street in Baghdad . They reported some in that group to be armed , presumed them to be Iraqi insurgents , and fired on them . The helicopters also fired on a van being driven by a man with his two children inside that stopped to evacuate the wounded . Both children were wounded . Noor-Eldeen and his Reuters driver , Saeed Chmagh , were among those killed in the attack . Noor-Eldeen was 22 years old at the time of his death
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July 12, 2007, Baghdad airstrike
Namir Noor-Eldeen