International News Safety Institute

06 July 2007

Ali Watan

Incident

Ali Watan

Cause of death

Crossfire

Details

Ali Watan, journalist working for Samawa local TV, was killed in the clashes that erupted between security forces and fighters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa.

Watan was killed by a sniper's bullet while entering the Samawa TV building.

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