Gunmen shoot dead Mosuliya TV anchorman

NINEWA / IraqiNews.com: Unidentified gunmen shot down a newscaster in al-Mosuliya channel, Mazen Mirdan, in northern Mosul city on Sunday, according to a local security source. “Unidentified gunmen broke their way into the house of Mirdan in al-Siddiq neighborhood, northern Mosul, and opened fire on him, killing him instantly and escaping to an unknown place,” the source told IraqiNews.com news agency. Mirdan, born in 1992, had first worked as a correspondent for al-Mosuliya channel, founded in 2006, and later became a news presenter there. Mosul, the capital city of the violence-swept province of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad. AmR (P) 1