A Kurdish television journalist has been killed in Iraq, where she was covering the operation to re-take Mosul.

The Rudaw news organisation says 30-year-old Shifa Gerdi, a presenter and head of output, was killed in a bomb attack on the outskirts of Mosul. Cameraman Younis Mustafa was also injured.

Shifa Gerdi was presenting a daily special program on the Mosul offensive, and a statement of condolences on Rudaw's website described her as one of the organisation's "most daring journalists".

A number of journalists have been injured in the Mosul operation. In October an Iraqi television journalist was killed covering the battle.