Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi television journalists north of Baghdad on Tuesday who had been on a reporting trip with
a top security officer, the channel said, according to AFP.
"Armed militias assassinated correspondent Saif Tallal and his cameraman Hassan al-Anbaki near Baquba," the capital of Diyala province, a Sharqiya news presenter said on the air.
The journalists were killed while returning to Baquba from a reporting trip with Staff Lieutenant General Mizher al-Azzawi, the head of security command responsible for the province, the channel said.