Iraq: two die in one week

Two Iraqi journalists were killed in separate incidents in one week in May, bringing the death toll of media workers since the war began to 275. Wisam Ali Ouda, a camera operator for the Afaq television station, was shot in Baghdad. The station’s public relations head, Bushra Abdul-Amir, told Reuters that witnesses said Ouda was shot by an “American sniper”. A US military spokesman said military activity was taking place in the area and that the incident was under investigation. The body of Al-Sharq newspaper reporter Haidar Hashim al-Husseini was found in a field in Diyala province along with other dead bodies. His had been bound and had a single bullet wound to the head.

Odai Sabri, a camera operator with public TV station Al-Irakiya, was seriously injured in June when a musical instrument shop in Basra was bombed. He was reporting on threats to the entertainment industry from radical Islamists.

 

 

 

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