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Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui killed in Afghanistan

Danish Siddiqui, an Indian photojournalist working for the international news agency Reuters, was killed in Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district in Kandahar, an Afghanistan-based television network TOLOnews reported on July 16.

More details about the incident were not immediately available. Siddiqui was covering the situation in Kandahar amid the conflict in Afghanistan.

In 2018, Siddiqui became the first Indian along with his colleague Adnan Abidi to win the Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis.

 

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