Kurdish journalist dies in Mosul

Kurdish journalist Shifa Gardi was killed by a roadside bomb while she was reporting on the battle for the Iraqi city of Mosul.

Gardi presented a daily program about the battle in Mosul. In a statement Rudaw calls her ' one of the most courageous journalists of the news organization '.

In Mosul fighting the Iraqi army with Islamic State. The villages on the south west side of the city are now in the hands of government forces.