Reply #3: Three journalists killed in Iraq (Sunday)

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Three journalists killed in Iraq

Iraqis on Sunday gather at the scene of a weekend truck
bombing that killed 17 people, police said

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Two local journalists and a Washington Post reporter were shot dead in Iraq on Sunday.

Tikrit police said two journalists working for a local newspaper were killed in an ambush between Tikrit and Kirkuk in northern Iraq. Three security guards were wounded in the ambush.

Salih Saif Aldin, a 32-year-old Iraqi reporter working for the Post, was shot and killed in the southwestern neighborhood of Saidiya, the paper reported in its Monday editions.

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The newspaper said he had taken a taxi from the Post's office to the neighborhood "to interview residents about the sectarian violence there between Shiite militiamen and Sunni insurgents."

The paper reported that "two hours later, a man picked up Saif Aldin's cell phone and called a colleague at the Post to say he had been shot." He was shot once in the forehead, the paper said.

The area where the reporter visited had been dominated by the Mehdi Army, the militia of Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, and police believe he was killed by Sunnis aligned with the "Awakening Council" -- the anti-insurgent tribal forces working with the United States, the paper reported.

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