Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi journalist working for a local television in the northern city of Mosul, an Iraqi independent watchdog said on Tuesday.
"Amir Malallah al-Rashidi, a sport journalist, was gunned down by unidentified armed men riding two vehicles, in the Garage al- Shemal area in the city of Mosul at about 5:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) on Monday," the Iraqi Journalists' Rights Defending Association said in a statement posted on its web site.
Rashidi, who worked for the al-Mosuliyah television, was critically wounded in his head and chest and later died in the hospital, the statement said.
Rashidi, a father of six, was born in 1968 and first worked as sport photographer for the state-run television of Iraqia in its office in Mosul immediately after the collapse of the former Iraqi regime under Saddam Hussein, the watchdog said.
More than 230 Iraqi media workers have been killed in Iraq, including 25 in Mosul only, since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to the Baghdad-based, the Iraqi Journalists' Union count.
The Paris-based media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, describes the dangers that face journalists in Iraq since the outbreak of the Iraq war as the bloodiest for the media since World War II.
Source: Xinhua
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