International News Safety Institute

27 October 2004

Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq

Incident

Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq and Unknown

Cause of death

Shooting

Details

Gunmen killed Liqaa Abdul-Razzaq, an Iraqi news reader, and her translator, on their way home from work at al-Sharqiya television in Baghdad.

Abdul-Razzaq was a popular presenter who had previously worked for Iraqi state television. The journalist had a 6-year old boy and a month-old baby girl. She was killed two months after her husband was murdered. The motive of the killing is not clear.

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