16 July 2007
Mustafa Gaimayani and Majeed Mohammed
Explosion
Mustafa Gaimayani, editor of Kirkuk al-Yawm, and Majeed Mohammed, a sports reporter for the paper, were killed when a suicide attacker driving a truck packed with explosives detonated the vehicle near one of the offices of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani’s party, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, in central Kirkuk.
At the time of the blast Mohammed and Gaimayani were working on the weekly in preparation for its publication. Mohammed was also a correspondent and Gaimayani a writer for the Kurdish-language weekly Hawal. Gaimayani, who was also known as Mustafa Darwish, was in his mid-40s. He was a dual national with Swedish citizenship. Majeed Mohammed was in his mid-30s.
