03 February 2009
Majid al-Sakr
Explosion
A Baghdad official says an Iraqi sports editor has died of shrapnel wounds suffered in a roadside bombing more than two months ago.
Majid al-Sakr had been in a coma since the November 28 attack in Baghdad. The head of the Iraqi Journalists' Union, Mouyyad al-Lami, says the 51-year-old journalist died on Tuesday in a hospital. Al-Lami says the journalists worked for the privately owned daily Al-Bayana and that he is survived by a wife and five children.
