A Kurdish reporter has been killed by a roadside bomb in Mosul, Iraq on the same day she reported live from the scene in the war-torn city.

Kurdish news outlet Rudaw announced on Saturday that its journalist and anchor, Shifa Gardi, 30, had been killed by a bomb while on assignment covering the advance of Iraqi forces into western parts of the nation held by Islamic State militants.

Gardi had reported live from Mosul earlier in the day and had been embedded with Iraqi forces in the western Mosul offensive in Albu Saif as recently as February 22.

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Cameraman Younis Mustafa was injured in the same attack, Rudaw said.

A statement from Rudaw said she was one of the network's most daring and courageous journalists.

"She was known as a renowned skilled journalist in Kurdish news media, and brought outstanding coverage to Rudaw TV right from the beginning of its establishment," the statement on the network's website said.

Gardi and her team were on a mission to investigate a mass grave where it was alleged that IS militants had killed and buried hundreds of civilians in Mosul, the website said.

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