Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who documented war, the toll of the pandemic and the violent plight of refugees, was killed in a Taliban attack Friday…
(Newser) – Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist who documented war, the toll of the pandemic and the violent plight of refugees, was killed in a Taliban attack Friday in Afghanistan. He was 38. Siddiqui, who was based in Mumbai as Reuters’ chief photographer in India, was embedded with Afghan forces to cover the US withdrawal, the BBC reports. He told his editors Friday that he’d been wounded in the arm by shrapnel during a battle between Taliban and Afghan forces in the town of Spin Boldak and had received treatment, per NPR.
