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Photojournalists killed, wounded in Libya while shooting war

April 20th, 2011 davidguide

Windsor Genova – AHN News News Writer

Benghazi, Libya (AHN) – An award-winning photographer and co-director of an Oscar-nominated documentary on the war in Afghanistan was killed in Libya on Wednesday while covering the battle in Misurata.

Tim Hetherington, whose film “Restrepo” won last year’s Grand Jury Award at the Sundance Film Festival, was killed in an explosion that also wounded three other foreign photojournalists shooting the fighting, according to doctors and colleagues.

Hetherington, Chris Hondros of Getty Images, Michael Brown of the Corbis agency, Briton Guy Martin of the Panos photo agency and their militiaman companion were retreating from the frontlines on foot when a mortar struck them.

Hondros and Martin were critically wounded and were being treated at a triage center on Wednesday. But photographer André Liohn, who is in Libya, confirmed on his Facebook account that Hetherington was killed and Hondros later succumbed to his injuries.

Brown suffered shrapnel wounds but he is out of danger, according to doctors.

Rebel-held Misurata has been under siege for weeks by troops and pro-Moammar Gadhafi militia.

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