MORE DEATHS BRING IRAQ TOLL TO 277

Mohieddin Abdul Hameed al-Naqib, a news presenter for the state-run TV station Al-Iraqiya, was gunned down in Mosul on June 17. He was leaving his home in the morning when a car with two or three men inside drove by and opened fire at him, killing him instantly.

He became the fourteenth journalist from the Iraq Media Network, the state-run media group composed of print and broadcast outlets, to be killed. This is the highest toll for any news organisation. He was the 277th journalist to be killed since March 2003, according to the International News Safety Institute.

Earlier in June, Sarwa Abdul-Wahab, a female Iraqi journalist who had written critically of insurgent groups, was also killed in Mosul after she resisted an abduction attempt by unidentified men.

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