Iraqi journalist dies 2 months after bombing

A Baghdad official says an Iraqi sports editor has died of shrapnel wounds suffered in a roadside bombing more than two months ago.

Majid al-Sakr had been in a coma since the November 28 attack in Baghdad.

The head of the Iraqi Journalists' Union, Mouyyad al-Lami, says the 51-year-old journalist died on Tuesday in a hospital.

Al-Lami says the journalists worked for the privately owned daily Al-Bayana and that he is survived by a wife and five children. The union official spoke Wednesday.

Advocacy organizations say Iraq has been the deadliest place for reporters to work.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says 136 journalists and 51 media support workers have been killed since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion. Those figures don't include al-Sakr.