International News Safety Institute

27 November 2013

Wadah al-Hamdani

Incident

Journalist killed in Basra by random shots

Cause of death

Shooting

Details

A journalist working for a TV channel was killed on Wednesday in Basra province by random shots fired by mourners of the funeral of Sheikh Ghanim clans, a security source reported.

"The mourners of the funeral of Sheikh Othman Ghanim in al-Zubair district shot randomly as an expression of grief , but one of the bullets hit the reporter and photographer of Baghdad Satellite Channel, Wadah al-Hamdani ,” the source told “Shafaq News”.

He added that the bullet hit his neck as killed him immediately.

>> Read the original article here Source: Shafaq News

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