Sunday, May 15, 2011

LIBYA - Two Western photographers died Misrata

The British war photographer Tim Hetherington, on assignment for Vanity Fair, was the victim of a mortar attack April 20 in Misrata, the magazine announced on its website. Chris Hondros, a photographer for the U.S. agency Getty Images, was also killed. Besieged and cut off from the rest of the country by the pro-Gaddafi Misrata is sustained clashes for nearly two months.

Photojournalists had reached the city by boat, from Benghazi. Two other photographers, one American and one Briton, were injured in these attacks.

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