Iranian Press TV’s correspondent in Turkey, Serena Shim, has been killed in a car accident in the border province of Urfa.

Shim was killed on Sunday as she was on a working mission in Turkey to cover the ongoing war in the strategic Syrian town of Kobani. Press TV reported that she was going back to her hotel from a report scene in the city of Suruç in Turkey's Urfa Province when their car collided with a heavy vehicle.

The truck driver is reported to have been taken into custody while Press TV cameraman Judy Irish who was also injured in the car accident has been taken to Suruç State Hospital.

Shim, an American citizen of Lebanese origin, covered reports for Press TV in Lebanon, Iraq, and Ukraine.

On Friday, she told Press TV that the Turkish intelligence agency (MIT) had accused her of spying "probably due to some of the stories she has covered about Turkey’s stance on the ISIL terrorists in Kobani and its surroundings", adding that she feared being arrested.

Shim said she was among the few journalists obtaining stories of militants infiltrating into Syria through the Turkish border, adding that she had received images from militants crossing the Turkish border into Syria in World Food Organization and other NGOs’ trucks.

Shim flatly rejected accusations against her, saying she was “surprised” at this accusation “because I have nothing to hide and I have never done anything aside my job.”