Two AFP correspondents missing in Libya

Two Agence France-Presse journalists are missing in Libya, where they were covering the conflict around the eastern city of Tobruk.

Dave Clark, 38, and Roberto Schmidt, 45, said in an email to senior editors on Friday evening that they planned to travel early Saturday to a region around 30 kilometres from Tobruk in an attempt to meet opponents of the regime of Moamer Kadhafi and speak to refugees fleeing the fighting.

Clark and Schmidt were accompanied by a photographer from the Getty Images agency, Joe Raedle. The three journalists have not been heard of since sending the email Friday night.

Dave Clark, who is based at AFP headquarters in Paris, has been reporting from Libya since March 8. Roberto Schmidt, a photographer in the Nairobi bureau, has been in eastern Libya since February 28.

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