21 October 2009
Orhan Hijran
Explosion
An Iraqi cameraman was killed and another journalist was wounded on Wednesday by a roadside bomb in the ethnically mixed city of Kirkuk, police said.
"Orhan Hijran, a cameraman for the Al-Rasheed television channel, was killed and Mohammed Abdallah Zadeh, with the Al-Baghdadia channel, was wounded at around 3:00 pm (1200 GMT) by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk," police colonel Adnan Abdallah said.
Both journalists were Turkmen Shiites. Police do not yet know whether the pair were the intended targets.
