Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui covers the monsoon floods and landslides in the upper reaches of Govindghat, India
A Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer for the Reuters news service was killed Friday as he chronicled fighting between Afghan forces and the Taliban near a strategic border crossing amid the continuing withdrawal of U.S. and NATO troops. Danish Siddiqui, 38, had been embedded with Afghan special forces for the past few days and was killed as the commando unit battled for control of the Spin Boldak crossing on the border between southern Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Siddiqui was part of a team that won the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for feature photography for their coverage of Rohingya refugees fleeing Myanmar. More recently, he had captured searing images of Indiaâs struggle against COVID-19 and protests against new farming laws. Farhat Basir Khan, a professor of mass communications at Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi, lauded his former studentâs sens
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