Photographer killed by Afghan 'police'
Famous for his reporting from war scenarios such as Iraq and Afghanistan. Seriously wounded fellow journalist Katthy Gannon
An Associated Press photographer was killed and his colleague journalist injured during an attack by gunfire fire in eastern Afghanistan on Friday morning. The two women were attacked while they were visiting the office of the governor of the district of Tanai, by a man, wearing a uniform, who was arrested. Katthy Gannon was seriously injured, while the photographer Anja Niedringhaus is dead.
Gannon, a correspondent for Pakistan and Afghanistan, is Canadian and his colleague, the photographer who accompanied him, Anja Niedringhaus, was German. The two reporters were in a small town in the province of Khost, in the district of Tania, in the eastern part of the country, near the border with Pakistan. Afghanistan is going through a turbulent election eve: tomorrow there will be presidential elections, a vote that the Taliban have threatened with bloodshed across the country.On the election, which will mark the end of the commitment period Karzai and NATO forces in the country, due to expire at year-end essentially weigh two unknowns: the security of voters and the risk of fraud. What today is the third attack on journalists in recent weeks in Afghanistan. On March 11, he was assassinated the Swede Nils Horner, in the center of Kabul, while he was doing interviews. Two weeks ago, an Afghan journalist of the agency AFP, Sardar Ahmad, was killed in a Taliban attack against a luxury hotel in the capital, along with his wife and two older children.
Anja Niedringhaus was one of the most valued and respected photographers of his generation. He won the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for his work on the war in Iraq. He had started working as a photographer at age 17. Then he covered the fall of the Berlin Wall. In 1990 he became a full-time photojournalist and enters the European Pressphoto Agency in Frankfurt. Then for ten years he worked on the conflict in Yugoslavia. In 2001 he goes to Afghanistan, where he spent three months in which to tell the fall of the Taliban, and five years later was awarded the prestigious Nieman Fellowship at Harvard. It is the author, among others, of the famous shot of the massacre of Nasiriyah.
I conclude this sad news by posting a video of his best pictures, powerful images that make us think, that they can not leave us indifferent.
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