29 October 2006
Sherin Hamid
Shooting
An Iraqi state television presenter and her driver were found dead in Baghdad, a day after they were abducted by unknown gunmen.
Sherin Hamid had hosted programmes on the al-Iraqiya station aimed at Iraq's Kurdish and Christian minorities, said Aziz Rahim, an al-Iraqiya spokesman. These programmes could have made Hamid a target of either Sunni insurgents or Shia militias. The two bodies were found in the Haifa Street district close to where they had been abducted, said police lieutenant Maithem Abdel-Razaq.
