Female TV presenter killed in Iraq

A female presenter in an Iraqi satellite channel was shot dead on Sunday by gunmen in the city of Mosul, the capital of the northern province of Nineveh, a provincial police source said. Nawras al-Nuaimi, 20, got several shots in the head when gunmen opened fire on her near her house in al-Jazaair neighborhood in eastern Mosul, some 400 km north of the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua. Nuaimi has been working as a presenter of TV programs in the local Mosuliyah channel for five years, he said, adding that she was the fourth journalist killed in Mosul since October and the 51st in Nineveh province since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. Earlier, the Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate said in its annual report that more than 375 media workers have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. In 2010, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders group said that the U.S. war with Iraq was the most deadly for journalists since World War II.