BAGHDAD, Oct 16 (latimes): Five Iraqi journalists were killed in three separate attacks this weekend, marking the deadliest day for reporters covering the country in a year.
Four reporters for Iraqi newspapers were reported shot to death Sunday in ambushes near Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Previously reported was the death of Salih Saif Aldin, a correspondent for the Washington Post who was apparently shot to death Sunday too while on assignment in the Sadiya neighbourhood of southwest Baghdad.
Both of the other attacks on Iraqi journalists Sunday happened north of Baghdad. Near Hawija Sunday, Ziad Tariq Ahmed, a reporter for the Iraqi Sahrin newspaper in Tikrit, was ambushed by gunmen on a highway while traveling with two relatives who were police officers. All three were killed.
Later, three reporters for the Watan newspaper were ambushed and killed by gunmen southwest of Kirkuk. The journalists were identified as Jassim Mohammed Nofan, Khalid Mohammed Nofan and Ziad Tariq.
Meanwhile, a US air strike north of Baghdad has killed at least 15 women and children, one of the largest losses of civilian life in a single American operation since the war began, the military said Friday.
"Nineteen suspected insurgents and 15 women and children were killed in an operation Thursday in the Lake Tharthar region north of Baghdad," a US military spokesman told AFP.
"Surveillance elements observed and confirmed activity consistent with the reports and supporting aircraft engaged the time-sensitive target," it said.
Five journalists die, US airstrike kills 15 in Iraq
FE Team | Published: October 17, 2007 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00
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