Iraq journalists' union head dies

Shihab Tamimi died of a heart attack after being shot on Saturday

The head of Iraq's national journalists' union, Shihab al-Tamimi, has died in hospital.

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.