He was shot in the chest on Saturday by gunmen in the capital Baghdad. A spokesman for the journalists' union said he died of a heart attack.

An independent journalist working for many local newspapers, he was a fierce critic of Iraq's sectarian violence.

Since the invasion of Iraq in 2003, 270 Iraqi journalists have been killed, the Iraqi Media Safety Group says.

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