Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi journalist working for a local radio in the city of Mosul, the capital of the northern province of Nineveh, a provincial police source said on Friday.
"Muhannad Ghanim al-Ubeidi, a journalist in the Dar al-Salam Radio, was gunned down by unidentified armed men on Thursday afternoon, when he was on his way home in the Tahrir neighborhood in eastern Mosul," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
The gunmen first tried to kidnap Ubeidi, but his resistance prompted them to shoot him dead and flee the scene, the source said.
Dar al-Salam Radio is the mouthpiece of the Iraqi Islamic Party, a major Sunni political party, headed by Vice President Tariq al- Hashimi.
Ubeidi is the second journalist assassinated in September in the city, some 400 km north of Baghdad, after gunmen shot dead Amir Malallah al-Rashidi, a sport journalist, working for the Mosuliyah local television.
More than 230 Iraqi media workers have been killed in Iraq, including 25 in Mosul alone, since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to the count by Baghdad-based Iraqi Journalists' Union.
The Paris-based media watchdog, Reporters Without Borders, has described the dangers that face journalists in Iraq since the outbreak of the Iraq war as the bloodiest for the media since World War II.
Source: Xinhua
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