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Ruba Gamiyya, senior news producer at Asiasat TV's Beirut office, said Al-Heeti was killed covering a candlelight vigil in central Heet for the victims of a truck bomb that exploded near a popular ice cream shop in Baghdad's Karrada district the night before. The journalist was killed when a man detonated explosives strapped to his body at a checkpoint near a school, killing himself, Al-Heeti, and at least 16 other people, according to news reports. No group claimed responsibility for the attack, media reports said.
Al-Heeti covered general news in Anbar province, reporting on
teachers' protests,
snow storms, and the plight of
street children, for example. He also
worked as a
freelancer for the private satellite channel Al-Fallujah TV, according to the manager of the broadcaster's Facebook account.
