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Iraq journalist shot dead in Ramadi
 A Marine said suspected attackers were spotted in this Ramadi cemetery, photographed last month. RELATEDSPECIAL REPORT
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YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- At least five people were killed in separate attacks in central Iraq Tuesday, including an Iraqi journalist. Baghdad TV told CNN Wednesday that its reporter and cameraman, Mahmoud Zaal, was shot dead in Ramadi, the volatile capital of Sunni Arab-dominated Anbar province. At the time U.S. and Iraqi forces were engaged in combat with insurgents. Baghdad TV is financed by the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni Arab political group in the country. The U.S. military is investigating the incident. Zaal was shot while videotaping on a road near the Anbar provincial government center, which had been blocked off by the U.S. military, the official said. A Marine Corps officer in Ramadi, Capt. Jeffrey Pool, said a base used by Marines and Iraqi soldiers, about 1000 meters (two-thirds of a mile) from the government center, "came under mortar, small arms and medium machine-gun fire." The attacks were coming from five different locations, Pool said. After spotting suspected insurgents in a cemetery, Marines called in aircraft that killed five of them in strafing runs. Three others fled the area, Pool said. A doctor at Ramadi Hospital, Hamdi al-Alusi, said two civilians were killed and three wounded, including a woman and a 10-year-old child, Reuters reported. Marines set up Outpost Horea in November to prevent insurgents from planting bombs in downtown Ramadi. The post endures daily attacks and overlooks one of the city's most dangerous roads, dubbed Route Michigan. Before Zaal's death Tuesday, the Committee to Protect Journalists said 60 journalists had been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003. Forty-one of those killed were Iraqis. U.S. Marine killedAlso in Anbar province Tuesday, a U.S. Marine was "killed by small-arms fire," the U.S military said. The death of the Marine, assigned to 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), brings the number of U.S. military deaths in the Iraq war to 2,236. The incident happened in the town of Karma near Falluja, the military said. Deadly attacks in BaqubaIn Baquba, to the northeast, gunmen killed two police officers and an employee of the Water Resource Ministry in separate attacks Tuesday, an official with the Diyala Joint Coordination Center told CNN. About 20 miles (30 kilometers) to the east, in Balad Ruz, Iraqi police also found the bodies of two men and one woman Tuesday, the official said. All had been shot, but it was not known when they had been killed. Other developmentsCNN's Cal Perry, Mohammed Tawfeeq and Shelby Lin contributed to this report. Reuters contributed to this report. 
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