(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) Gunmen shot dead television presenter Nawras al-Nuaimi in Northern Iraq as attacks across the country left 20 people dead.
Al-Mosuliyah TV and police said that Nuaimi was murdered as she was walking near her home in Mosul, 400 kilometres Northwest of Baghdad on Sunday night.
The presenter's death takes the number of journalists killed in Iraq since October to six and she is the fifth journalist killed in the Northern city during the same period.
The killing of Nuaimi was just the latest deadly violence targeting journalists in Iraq.
Media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders said it was "worried about the very dangerous climate for journalists both in Iraqi Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq and about the impunity enjoyed by their attackers and killers".
In the deadliest single attack in Iraq, in Mosul, a roadside bomb missed an army patrol, but killed two civilians and wounded four and in the town of Sadiyah, 95 kilometres North of Baghdad, gunmen killed a Health Ministry employee and his family early Sunday.
Police said the attackers used guns fitted with silencers and broke into the man's home and killed him, his wife, two sons and their 10-year old daughter as they slept.
In the Waziriyah neighborhood of Northern Baghdad, a bomb attached to a bus killed two commuters and wounded seven and also a car bomb exploded near a restaurant, killing three people and wounding four others in Eastern Baghdad.
Finally in Baghdad's Northeastern suburb of Husseiniyah, four people were killed and six other were wounded in a car bomb explosion targeting a commercial street.
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Al-Mosuliyah TV and police said that Nuaimi was murdered as she was walking near her home in Mosul, 400 kilometres Northwest of Baghdad on Sunday night.
The presenter's death takes the number of journalists killed in Iraq since October to six and she is the fifth journalist killed in the Northern city during the same period.
The killing of Nuaimi was just the latest deadly violence targeting journalists in Iraq.
Media rights watchdog Reporters Without Borders said it was "worried about the very dangerous climate for journalists both in Iraqi Kurdistan and the rest of Iraq and about the impunity enjoyed by their attackers and killers".
In the deadliest single attack in Iraq, in Mosul, a roadside bomb missed an army patrol, but killed two civilians and wounded four and in the town of Sadiyah, 95 kilometres North of Baghdad, gunmen killed a Health Ministry employee and his family early Sunday.
Police said the attackers used guns fitted with silencers and broke into the man's home and killed him, his wife, two sons and their 10-year old daughter as they slept.
In the Waziriyah neighborhood of Northern Baghdad, a bomb attached to a bus killed two commuters and wounded seven and also a car bomb exploded near a restaurant, killing three people and wounding four others in Eastern Baghdad.
Finally in Baghdad's Northeastern suburb of Husseiniyah, four people were killed and six other were wounded in a car bomb explosion targeting a commercial street.
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