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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.
Danish Siddiqui, a Reuters photojournalist, was killed in clashes in Spin Boldak district in Kandahar, sources confirmed.
The Indian journalist was covering the situation in Kandahar over the last few days. pic.twitter.com/VdvIRGAEa3
— TOLOnews (@TOLOnews) July 16, 2021
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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