Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi journalist working for a U.S. newspaper in southern Baghdad on Sunday, an Iraqi media watchdog said on Monday.
Salih Saif al-Din, a correspondent for the Washington Post, was killed by gunmen in the Saidiyah neighborhood while on duty in Baghdad's most dangerous area, the Journalistic Freedom observatory (JFO) said in a statement.
"The 32-year-old Iraqi reporter in The Washington Post's Baghdad bureau was shot once in the forehead in the southwestern neighborhood of Saidiyah," the statement said.
It added that Saif al-Din went in the afternoon to Saidiyah to interview residents about the sectarian violence there between Shiite militiamen and Sunni insurgents.
Some 238 Iraqi media workers have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, according to the 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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