Two journalists die in attack near Baghdad

Dona Center for media Freedom (http://www.dohacentre.org/EN/index.php)

The Doha Centre said it was shocked at the death today (10 March) of two journalists with the privately-owned TV station Al-Baghdadiya in a suicide attack that killed at least 33 people at Abu Ghraib, (25 km west of Baghdad). Four other journalists were injured, one of them seriously.

“Iraq is still one of the world’s most dangerous places for journalists to work six years after the US invasion and even though the US is planning to withdraw,” the Centre said. “Armed groups that have killed at least 220 media workers during this time are still on the rampage. We send our condolences to the families and colleagues of the latest victims.”

The bomb attack came as about 20 journalists were covering the visit of security officials to a market in Abu Ghraib. The two dead journalists were Haidar Hachem Souhail and Soheil Adnan. The four injured were from the government-run TV station Al-Iraqiya and one of them, Ibrahim al-Kateb, was in critical condition. The Doha Centre said it would help the families of all the journalist victims.