Another Iraqi correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, Nazar Abd al-Wahid al-Radhi, was shot and killed in the southern Iraqi city of Al-Amarah this morning, the second RFE/RL correspondent to die in Iraq in less than two months.
Al-Radhi worked for RFE/RL's Radio Free Iraq and was with several other journalists in front of the Al-Arusa Hotel after a press event there when armed men in a pickup truck drove up and opened fire. An eyewitness said al-Radhi was hit by four bullets and died instantly. He was 38 years old and the father of three children.
Al-Radhi is the second RFE/RL correspondent slain in Iraq in seven weeks. Khamail Muhsin Khalaf, Radio Free Iraq's Baghdad correspondent and a former television anchor, was abducted and killed in early April. Her body was found in western Baghdad on April 5. She was 50 years old and the mother of three.
Al-Radhi was a well-known journalist in Iraq. In addition to reporting regularly for RFE/RL, he also worked for the Voices of Iraq Aswat al-Iraq independent news agency, several Iraqi newspapers and headed a nongovernmental organization for young journalists funded by the Iraqi government.
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