04 May 2008
Tharwat Abdul-Wahab
Shooting
Unidentified gunmen killed an Iraqi female journalist working for the Muraseloon (correspondents) news agency in eastern Mosul city, police said.
"On Sunday, unknown gunmen opened fire on Sirwa Abdul-Wahab, a journalist working for the Baghdad-based Muraseloon news agency while heading for work in al-Bakr neighborhood, eastern Mosul, killing her instantly," a security source, who asked not to be named, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI). Abdul-Wahab "wrote for many Iraqi local newspapers and worked in the elections committee." Meanwhile, Ibrahim al-Siraji, the chairman of an Iraqi association advocating journalists' rights, told VOI that Abdul-Wahab was a member of the association's Mosul branch. Born in 1972, Abdul-Wahab worked for the Tikrit-based Salah al-Din TV channel. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
