Shots to kill Iraqi TV presenter - 20minutos.es

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Gunmen on Sunday shot and killed a television presenter city of Mosul , in northern Iraq, police sources said, in a new attack Professionals media.

Nures al-Naimi journalist satellite channel Al Mosuliya , shot several times near his home in Mosul, capital Ninawa.

attackers escaped of the scene and the security forces moved the corpse to a local forensic institute.

This is the second attack against media workers in Mosul this month. On Dec. 2, gunmen killed journalist Adel Hussein, who worked for several local media in Nineveh.

In early October killed two journalists in the same city Also, in early October, unknown persons shot and killed two journalists private channel Al Sharqiya while working in the center of the city of Mosul.

The Journalistic Freedoms Observatory condemned Iraq a few weeks ago campaign of armed attacks on journalists of Mosul, and asked for police protection.

According to figures released in October by the Iraqi Journalists Syndicate, at least 375 workers of different media have been killed in Iraq since the U.S. invasion that toppled Saddam Hussein in March 2003.