A cameraman from an Iraqi satellite TV channel was killed and a journalist from another Iraqi channel was wounded by a roadside bomb explosion in the city of Kirkuk, a local police source said.

"Orhan Hijran, a cameraman working for the al-Rasheed television, was killed and Mohammed Abdullah, a journalist with the al-Baghdadiyah channel, was wounded when a roadside bomb went off in the afternoon near their car in al-Khadraa district in southern Kirkuk," the source at Kirkuk police operations office, told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The source could not tell whether the two journalists were targeted by the blast, saying that the incident is under investigation.

Statistics of the Iraqi Union of Journalists show that more than 270 of its members and media workers have been killed since the start of US-led war in March 2003.