International News Safety Institute

30 January 2008

Alaa Abdul Karim

Incident

Alaa Abdul Karim

Cause of death

Explosion

Details

A roadside bomb killed a television journalist and a driver north of Baghdad.

A correspondent and assistant cameraman were seriously wounded. The journalists who were killed and hurt worked for al-Forat TV, an Iraqi television station. It identified the men who were killed as Alaa Abdul Karim, a cameraman, and Alaa Assi, a driver.

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