Reuters Photographer Danish Siddiqui Killed In Fight Between Afghan Forces And Taliban
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Siddiqui was a Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer who was embedded with the Afghan special forces when he was killed.
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the news agency Reuters was killed Friday during a clash between Afghan forces and the Taliban. Danish Siddiqui, an Indian national who had been embedded in the Afghan city of Kandahar with the country’s special forces, had been reporting on fighting between Afghan commandos and Taliban fighters when he was killed, Reuters reported. Danish Siddiqui covered war zones and crises from Iraq to Hong Kong to Nepal. He was killed on Friday covering Afghan-Taliban clashes near the Pakistan border. Here is some of the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer's best work from the past decade: https://t.co/HnoHFKTyFS pic.twitter.com/Asz4vVFMnh— Reuters Pictures (@reuterspictures) July 16, 2021
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