Kurdish TV reporter killed in Iraq’s Mosul: Channel

Shifa Gardi was a presenter and chief of output at Rudaw, a media group in Kurdistan funded by the Kurdistan Democratic Party.

A female reporter working for Iraqi Kurdish channel Rudaw was killed on Saturday covering the fighting between government forces and the Islamic State group in Mosul, her channel said.

Shifa Gardi was killed in Mosul as she covered clashes. (Photo: Rudaw English on Twitter)

“Prominent Rudaw war reporter and journalist Shifa Gardi has been killed in Mosul as she covered clashes,” Rudaw said on social media.

Rudaw editors said Shifa Gardi was killed by an explosive device on a road in west Mosul and said the cameraman accompanying her was wounded. (Twitter)

“Journalism remains male-dominated -- Shifa Gardi broke those perceptions and stereotypes -- we pay tribute to her courageous journalism,” the channel said.

Rudaw editors told AFP she was killed by an explosive device on a road in west Mosul and said that the cameraman accompanying her was wounded.

He was transferred to Arbil, the nearby capital of Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region where the channel is headquartered.

Iraqi forces entered neighbourhoods of the west bank of Mosul on Friday for the first since the start on October 17 of a huge offensive to retake the city from the Islamic State group.