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Deutsche Presse-AgenturBaghdad - An Iraqi policeman opened fire Tuesday on a crowd of civilians queuing outside an ice factory in Karbala, killing three people and wounding seven others in an apparently random shooting, an Iraqi police source said.
The policeman has been arrested and he is currently being interrogated. No information was given as to a possible motive for the attack.
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Hassan Shahid al-Azzawi had visited a local market before heading to work, but mysteriously disappeared, the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory (JFO) said in a statement.
His colleagues and relatives have been searching for him.
Al-Azzawi was detained and tried in April 2007 on charges of defaming the former chairman of the Kut municipal council in an article published about a year earlier, according to JFO.
He spent several months in prison after being found guilty.
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