2321 casualties all countries
| Article | Media type | Gender | Cause of death |
| 12 October 2006 | IRAQ Abdul-Rahim Nasrallah al-Shimari | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 12 October 2006 | IRAQ Ali Jabber | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 12 October 2006 | IRAQ Hussein Ali | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 12 October 2006 | IRAQ Ahmad | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 12 October 2006 | IRAQ Ahmad Sha’ban | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 10 October 2006 | IRAQ Azad Muhammad Hussein | Radio | Male | Torture |
| 9 October 2006 | CAMEROON Mathieu Kisito Ngalamou | Multiple | Male | Road accident |
| 7 October 2006 | AFGHANISTAN Karen Fischer | Television | Female | Shooting |
| 7 October 2006 | AFGHANISTAN Christian Struwe | Television | Male | Shooting |
| 7 October 2006 | RUSSIA Anna Politkovskaya | Female | Shooting |
Killing the Messenger is INSI’s annual report of journalism casualties from around the world. The statistics are compiled by monitoring press reports of journalists, media workers and citizen journalists killed as a result of their job which are then checked and verified by the Cardiff School of Journalism.
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