SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — Bosnians and international officials have paid tribute to Associated Press Television News cameraman Miguel Gil Moreno de Mora, who reported the sufferings of the Bosnian conflict before his death in an ambush in Sierra Leone in May.

Gil Moreno de Mora, 32, began his journalistic career in Sarajevo in 1993 during the height of the conflict, which ended with the Dayton peace agreement two years later. His career also took him to Chechnya, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Congo and other war zones before he was killed May 24 in an ambush along with Reuters correspondent Kurt Schork.

Some 100 mourners, including 12 members of his family, co-workers from The Associated Press, Bosnian government officials, U.N. mission chief Jacques Klein, and a senior aid official, Ralph Johnson of the United States, gathered Sunday in Sarajevo's Roman Catholic cathedral for a memorial Mass celebrated by the Rev. Ivo Tomasevic and a Spanish military priest, the Rev. Miguel Angel Valganon.

Many in the congregation wept as a clerical assistant told them that Gil Moreno de Mora "shared the suffering of the Bosnian people" during the 3 1/2-year conflict.

Later Sunday, members of the family, including his mother, traveled to the southern city of Mostar, where Gil Moreno de Mora was based during some of the bloodiest fighting between Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats.

In Mostar, the family visited in the home of Safet Sestic, a Bosnian Muslim who was Miguel's landlord for almost a year. Sestic wept as he told the family that throughout the fighting, Gil Moreno de Mora would bring food and medicine to his family.

"He shared everything with us," Sestic said. "He was a great friend."

Last month, the Bosnian government awarded posthumous Bosnian citizenship to both Gil Moreno de Mora and Schork, who also reported from Sarajevo during the war.