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These are the last images filmed by Japanese journalist Mika Yamamoto before her death on Tuesday. The Japan Press journalist died from her wounds after a gunfight between Syrian forces and rebel fighters in Aleppo. This footage was taken just hours before she was killed. Yamamato herself appears on film, as does her colleague and husband Kazutaka Sato who survived the gunfight. Four gunshots can be heard in the very last scene that she filmed. Following an autopsy, Yamamoto's body will be taken to Istanbul before being repatriated to Japan. The 45-year-old award winning journalist is the first Japanese person to be killed in the ongoing armed conflict in Syria.