Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui killed in Afghanistan

Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed while covering clashes between Afghan special forces and the Taliban.

LONDON and KABUL -- Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed in southern Afghanistan while covering clashes between the country's special forces and the Taliban. He was 38. Siddiqui, an Indian national and a chief photographer for the Reuters news agency, was embedded with Afghan special forces in the southern province of Kandahar, a former Taliban stronghold, and had been reporting on the battle there when he lost his life. A local official told ABC News that their convoy was ambushed by the Taliban in Spin Boldak, a strategic border crossing along the frontier with Pakistan that the group claimed to have seized earlier this week. Reuters said Friday morning that it was "urgently seeking more information" and "working with authorities in the region."