Iraqi TV producer shot dead

Televisionpoint.com Team
A media watchdog organisation has condemned the killing of an Iraqi television producer in northern Iraq.

Khalid al-Attar, who worked for al-Iraqiya television, was abducted from a Mosul neighbourhood by unidentified gunmen and found shot to death on Friday, the statefunded station said.

Paris-based reporters without borders said alAttar's death marked the ninth killing of a journalist in Mosul, Iraq's thirdlargest city 360 kilometres northwest of Baghdad.

The organisation called on Iraqi and US authorities to investigate, saying Mosul has become "Iraq's most dangerous city for the press people after Baghdad."

Khalid al-attar, 43, worked for a satirical programme that poked fun of the government's perceived carelessness and inability to deal with major issues in the country, including frequent water shortages and power cuts.