14/1/2018
Saad Hadi Almushrafawy, photojournalist at Anbaa Alshabab Agency and Suq Alshiyoukh website in Nassiriya, died due to wounds sustained by a detonated booby car that targeted their convoy in Mtebeicha near Samaraa.
Coordinator for Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq said that the martyr had sustained serious wounds especially that in his head due to the storming of the explosion.
At the time that Press Freedom Advocacy Association in Iraq expresses its heart felt condolences to the victim’s family , it urges all media bodies to safeguard the environment before involving their cadres in risky media orders. Almushrifawy is considered the first photojournalist to be killed in 2018.