Employees of the Shaabiya satellite television station at the Al Kindi Hospital in Baghdad following the 12 October attack that left 11 people dead. (AP/EMPICS)

Eleven Iraqis were killed during an armed attack on the Baghdad office of Shaabiya television station during the early hours of Thursday, 12 October. Several vehicles stopped outside the office and masked gunmen raided the building, killing the Shaabiya staff members and security guards as they slept. This is the deadliest attack yet on a media organisation in Iraq, which was recently named by the Committee to Protect Journalists as the country where most journalists have been killed over the past 15 years.

The killings followed the release on 10 October of an extensive study into civilian deaths in Iraq since the start of the 2003 war. The study, titled Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey, was conducted by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (Baltimore) and the School of Medicine at Al Mustansiriya Univeristy (Baghdad). The study found that most violent deaths of Iraqis (56%) are caused by gunshot.

Gunmen kill 11 in raid on TV station - The Guardian (UK)