Seven people, including two policemen died and at least 11 others were hurt in two bomb attacks in the city of Fallujah, a local police source said on Saturday.
Elsewhere, an Iraqi journalist working for a Kuwaiti-owned satellite channel has died after being shot in the head by a sniper on his way home from work, an Iraq-based watchdog said on Saturday. “The Iraqi reporter Adnan al-Safi, 40, who works for Al-Anwar space channel, died on Friday morning after he had been shot by a sniper in the head on Wednesday,” a statement from the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory said, according to AFP.
Safi, who also worked as an adviser to the Iraqi journalists’ union and as a reporter for Sawt al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq), is survived by his wife and three children.
Meanwhile, Iraqi officials said Saturday that the death toll in an attack on a Shiite market district in Baghdad had risen to 61 after dozens more bodies were pulled from the rubble. Blasts struck the Karradah district in central Baghdad as it was packed with shoppers at about 6:40 p.m. on Thursday, setting buildings and cars on fire and sending three huge columns of smoke billowing into the sky.
