The news Agency Sputnik came under fire in Mosul
MOSUL, July 23 — RIA Novosti. The correspondent of the Arabic edition of Sputnik Sarah Noureddine came under fire in the West of the Iraqi Mosul, injuring an Iraqi soldier accompanying her.
“The attacker was with a rifle of the type M16 and was in a small room with a hole in the roof at the elementary school At-Tahir in the old part of Mosul,” said Noureddine. According to her, the shooter was at a distance of about a meter from her and an Iraqi soldier, she could clearly see the rifle.
In the moment of attack reporter was filming the demining process in the residential district of al-Maidan near the main mosque An-Nuri. By coincidence, the bullet hit the Iraqi soldier, not the journalist.
“The soldier suffered five bullet wounds in the leg, back, and lost a finger. I only got scrapes and bruises all over my body while I was running to a safe place at the bottom of the school,” said Noureddine.