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KIRKUK, Iraq, April 15 (AFP) - 18h49 - A Kurdish
television journalist was shot dead Friday in the
ethnically divided oil city of Kirkuk in northern
Iraq, police said.
Shamal Abdullah Assad, who worked for the local
station of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, was gunned down by
armed men in a car lot, said police Colonel Adel
Zein Al-Abidine Ibrahim.
Kirkuk, home to Kurds, Arabs and Turkmen, has been
on edge since January 30 elections that saw Kurds
move closer to their goal of annexing the city to
Kurdistan.
Two journalists were gunned down in the northern
city of Mosul in March and February. One of them was
a reporter with a local Kurdish television station.
At least 50 journalists and other media workers have
been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion of
Iraq two years ago.
AFP
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