PARIS (AFP) - Journalist Veronique Robert, wounded in the same landmine blast that killed two colleagues in the Iraqi city of Mosul earlier this week, has died, employers France Televisions announced Saturday (June 24).

Robert had been operated on in Baghdad and then flown back for treatment in France overnight Thursday to Friday, but died of her wounds, the public broadcaster said in a statement.

French colleague Stephan Villeneuve and Iraqi Kurdish reporter Bakhtiyar Addad were also killed in Monday's (June 19) blast. All three were working for production company #5 Bis Productions on a programme for the French news programme Envoye Special, aired on public television channel France 2.

A fourth journalist with them, Samuel Forey, suffered light injuries.

Robert, 54, was an experienced war correspondent specialising in coverage of the Middle East, Iraq in particular, said the statement from France Televisions.

They were accompanying Iraqi special forces during the battle for the city, where jihadists from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria group entrenched in the narrow streets of the old town have set numerous booby traps.

"The word sadness is not enough to describe how we feel," he added.

Reporters without Borders (RSF), the Paris-based media rights watchdog, also saluted her.

According to RSF's own tally, her death brings to 29 the number of journalists killed in Iraq since 2014. On Tuesday (June 20), the French president's office announced that Villeneuve would be posthumously awarded the knight of the Legion of Honour, one of France's highest honours.