Media sources reported that an unknown armed group shot fire at citizens in al-Doura area, southwest Baghdad, killing Maryam al-Murtadi. She was shot in the head while walking with her father in al-Seha neighbourhood.
Palestinian refugees in Iraq have been some of the targets of the increasing sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni Muslims, exacerbated by the presence and one-sidedness of U.S. forces occupying the country.