Four journalists killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Four more Iraqi journalists have been killed in attacks across Iraq in the last three weeks, a media watchdog and police said Thursday.

Luay Suleiman, a Christian working with a newspaper called Nineveh al-Hurra in the northern city of Mosul, and another man were found dead on Wednesday, Brigadier General Saeeh Ahmed of Nineveh police told AFP.

"Luay was carrying an identity card which showed him working as a reporter with the newspaper," Ahmed said.

He said the two men, who were also members of a local Christian cultural organisation, were killed by gunmen in the Al-Zuhur neighbourhood of Mosul.

As more and more media outlets relocate to neighbouring countries and the Kurdish north "their local correspondents are left without any protection and their killers continue to operate with impunity," the Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said in a statement.