BAGHDAD, Feb. 25 (Xinhuanet) -- One was killed and four others wounded on Saturday when unidentified gunmen attacked people taking the body of killed Al-Arabiya journalist to cemetery in western Baghdad, a correspondent of Al-Arabiya at the scene said on television.
"Now one was killed and four wounded, and all of them are security guards," he said on the Al-Arabiya channel.
"We were attacked before we reached the Al-Karh cemetery in west of Baghdad," another journalist with them told Xinhua earlier.
According to the witness, the attack coincided with another attack on the nearby house of Harith al-Dari, head of Iraq's leading Sunni Muslim religious organization almost at the same time.
One official from the Muslim Scholars Association said gunmen showed up in cars and opened fire at the Baghdad house of Harith al-Dari on Saturday morning and security guards returned fire. It is still not clear whether the two attacks were carried out by the same group of gunmen.
Atwar Bahjat, a famous female Iraqi television journalist working for the Dubai-based Al-Arabiya television, was killed with two members of her crew on Wednesday when they were on the way to cover the shrine attack in Samarra, some 120 km north of Baghdad. Enditem |