BAGHDAD: Gunmen kidnapped and shot dead three Iraqi journalists from Iraq’s Sharqiya TV station along with their driver in the volatile northern city of Mosul yesterday, the station and police said.
The shootings mark a violent two days in which dozens have been killed in gun-and-bomb attacks mainly in northern Iraq. Two roadside bombs killed at least eight people in Baghdad and Diyala province northeast of the capital yesterday.
Late on Friday, a car bomb apparently targeting people on the streets breaking their fast during Ramadan killed 30 people and wounded 47 in Dujail in northern Salahuddin province.
“Today at noon, armed people kidnapped and killed four of our workers in the channel,” Sharqiya, an independent channel based in Dubai and known for its criticism of the Iraqi government, said in a statement read by one of its presenters.
It said the dead were its chief Mosul correspondent Musab Mahmoud Al-Azawi, two cameramen and a driver. The four went missing in the early hours and police said they recovered their bodies bearing gunshot wounds on the western side of Mosul. They had been filming a program on charity during Ramadan.
