Jun 17, 2007, 12:07 GMT
Baghdad - The body of Fleh Dway Megthab, editor of Iraq's state-owned newspaper al-Sabah, was discovered Sunday in a Baghdad forensic department morgue, a newspaper source said.
The body was found four days after his abduction by unidentified gunmen from his house in al-Habebiya neighborhood, the al-Sabah newspaper source told the Independent News Agency (formerly known as Voices of Iraq).
'The body of Fleh Dway was found on Sunday in Baghdad's morgue with bullet shots to the head,' said the source, who had spoken on condition of anonymity.
Dway, 53, and his son were reported kidnapped last Wednesday after three vehicles intercepted his car as he left his house.
According to the agency, the Journalist Freedoms Observatory (JFO) had called on the kidnappers last Friday to release Dway. It also called on the Iraqi security apparatus to probe the incident.
Official statistics released by the Iraqi Journalists' Syndicate place the number of victims of violence among journalists since 2003 at 250.
Meanwhile, a government curfew was lifted in Baghdad Sunday, four days after it was imposed following a bomb attack on a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq.
Schools, government buildings and businesses were reopened and people were reported to be visiting markets in large numbers, despite the possibility of attacks.
However, a government official said the curfew in the northern city of Samarra, where one of the holiest Shiite religious sites was bombed Wednesday, was not raised.
The curfews were imposed because of fear of reprisals. According to the Sunni Association of Religious Scholars, 20 Sunni mosques have been attacked across Iraq since Wednesday.
An office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Kirkuk was meanwhile struck by a car bomb Sunday, police said, killing two Kurdish security force members and wounding four.
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