Iraqi insurgents in a car gunned down an Iraqi journalist who they had warned against publishing alleged pro-U.S. coalition in his newspaper.

Fallujah police Lt. Mohammed Ali said the shooting occurred Tuesday night, and targeted Ibrahim Seneid, an editor at the al-Bashara newspaper.

Ali said pamphlets had been distributed around the city last week, accusing Seneid of using the newspaper to publish U.S. propaganda, and demanded either the newspaper stop, or shut down, CBS News reported.

Seneid's death brings to 74 the number of journalists killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion, based on statistics from the Committee to Protect Journalists, based in New York. Of the total, 52 were Iraqi, the report said.