Iraqi abductors kill Italian journalist

Militants in Iraq killed Enzo Baldoni after Italy refused their demand to withdraw its troops. In Hindi

Militants in Iraq killed Italian journalist Enzo Baldoni after Italy refused their demand to withdraw its troops from the country, the Pan-Arab television station Al-Jazeera reported early on Friday.

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The station received a video on Thursday that showed Baldoni apparently being killed, but declined to show it out of sensitivity to its viewers, said Jihad Ballout, the station's spokesman.

"Judging from the recording we received, it seems that the hostage takers carried out their threat to kill their hostage," Ballout said.

Al-Jazeera's newsreader said the video also showed Baldoni after he was killed.

Ballout declined to say how Baldoni was killed, but said the video contained "unsavoury visuals."