BAGHDAD, June 7 (Reuters) - A journalist working with the independent Aswat al-Iraq news agency in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul was killed by gunmen on Thursday, the agency said.

Sahar al-Haideri was married with three daughters, the agency said. Her body was found in the al-Hadbaa neighbourhood of northeastern Mosul.

"Unknown armed people killed her today at noon," Aswat al-Iraq (Voice of Iraq) said in a statement.

Journalists have been dying in record numbers in Iraq, with at least 12 killed in May, the highest monthly total since the start of the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003, according to media watchdogs.

Aswat al-Iraq said Haideri's name had been on a "death list" of journalists issued by the local leader of the al Qaeda-led militant group, Islamic State in Iraq.

Another Aswat al-Iraq journalist, Nazar al-Radhi, was among the journalists killed in May.

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