12/23/2013

Gunmen Attack Iraqi TV Stations

Gunmen attack Iraqi television stations - Al Arabiya News
Some journalists managed to escape the building, while others were still trapped inside. At least one was reportedly killed.
“I managed to escape, and I am outside the building, and the third and the fourth floors are on fire now,” a Salaheddin TV journalist told AFP by telephone.
“Some of my colleagues are trapped in the building, among them two women. I am calling them on their mobile phones and they are not answering,” he said.
A journalist from Iraqiya state TV, which has an office in the same building, said he too was able to escape, but that others were still in the building.
Iraq has come in for repeated criticism over the lack of media freedom and the number of unsolved killings of journalists.

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