ITN's Gaby Rado, Foreign Affairs Correspondent for Channel 4 News, has died in Iraq.

The news organisation said his death is not believed to be connected to the ongoing military action in the country. Instead, it appears Rado died after falling from the roof of the Abu Sanaa Hotel in Suleimaniya, located in northern Iraq.

Channel 4 reports that Rado suffered "serious head injuries" as a result of the fall, and although emergency first aid was administered in the hotel car park, he was pronounced dead upon arrival at a local hospital. Police in Suleimaniya are conducting an investigation, according to ITN.

Rado joined ITN in 1985, moving from ITV to Channel 4 in 1988. Jim Gray, Channel 4 News Editor, said: "All of us are utterly distraught and our thoughts are with Gaby's family. Gaby was truly a unique figure in television journalism, and his reporting and analysis of some of the world's most tumultuous events was always imbued with his uniquely cultured sensibility and perception. He was among the most experienced in his field, and had worked on award-winning assignments for Channel 4 News chartering the transformations and conflicts throughout Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Afghanistan. We loved Gaby very much and he will be deeply missed."

Rado, 48, was married to his second wife Dessa. He had two children by his first wife, Carol.

ITN's Chief Executive and Editor-in-Chief Stewart Purvis, said: "Gaby Rado was one of the great practitioners of the intelligent, probing and sometimes sceptical journalism which is the hallmark of Channel Four News. His death is a tragedy for his family, friends and colleagues across the different newsrooms within ITN. We will make every effort to bring his body home whilst we also continue to try to recover from Basra the body of ITV News correspondent, Terry Lloyd, and to search for the missing ITV News crew members Fred Nerac and Hussein Osman."