15 May 2005
Najem Abed Khudair, Ahmed Adam, and Ali Jassem Al Rumi
Knife attack
The attack took place when the journalists were travelling to Kerbala from Baghdad.
They were among 13 passengers in a minibus that was stopped by an armed group who picked out the journalists when they showed their press cards. The rest of the passengers were freed, but Najem Abd Khudair, the Kerbala correspondent for the newspaper Al Mada, Ahmad Adam, a freelance writer for Al Mada and trainee journalist, Ali Jassem Al Rumi, working for Al Safeer newspaper in Baghdad were then killed.
