Gunmen killed the head of a local radio station in the Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Tuesday (December 6th), the latest in a string of such murders in the country, AFP reported.
"Unidentified gunmen driving a white car assassinated Mohammed Thabet al-Obeidi," a Kirkuk police colonel told AFP, adding that the journalist was on his way to work in the city centre when he was shot.
The 38-year-old was in charge of a radio station called Baba Gurgur that broadcasts in Arabic, Kurdish and Turkmen, and also worked for the state-run Iraqi Media Network.
Obeidi's colleague from the state-run Iraqiya channel, Roji Anwar, confirmed the killing.
Obeidi's death came a few days after another Iraqi journalist was found dead near Dohuk, in Iraq's Kurdish region.
