15 powerful pictures of Danish Siddiqui, the award winning photojournalist killed in Afghanistan

The Pulitzer prize winnning photograph of Danish Siddiqui, who was was killed in Afghanistan on Friday. In Pic: An exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touches the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat through the Bay of Bengal, in Shah Porir Dwip, Bangladesh September 11, 2017. (Reuters)

Danish Siddiqui was killed while covering the fighting between Afghan troops and the Taliban militants near a border crossing with Pakistan in Kandahar province. In pic: Rohingya refugees stretch their hands to receive aid distributed by local organisations at a makeshift camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh September 18, 2017.(Reuters)

Based in Mumbai, he began his career as a television news correspondent and later joined Reuters as an intern in 2010. In Pic: Rohingya refugee children carry an old woman in a sling near Balukhali makeshift refugee camp in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, September 13, 2017. (Reuters)

Members of Afghan Special Forces regroup after heavy clashes with Taliban during the rescue mission of a policeman besieged at a check post, in Kandahar province, Afghanistan, July 13, 2021. (Reuters)

Cremations of COVID-19 victims on the banks of the river Ganges in a town in Uttar Pradesh, India.(Twitter/Danish Siddiqui)

A mass cremation of victims who died from complications related to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), is seen at a crematorium ground in New Delhi, India, April 22, 2021. Picture taken with a drone. (Reuters)

Migrant workers wait to cross the border to reach their home state, during an extended nationwide lockdown to slow the spread of COVID-19, on the outskirts of New Delhi, India. (Twitter/Danish Siddiqui)

Scenes from inside a COVID-19 hospital, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi, India April 15, 2021. (Twitter/Danish Siddiqui)

At a covid hospital in Delhi during the peak of second wave (Twitter/Danish Siddiqui)

Fishermen attempting to reach to their home state Maharashtra from Gujarat after the nationwide lockdown was imposed to fight the coronavirus disease, April 17, 2020 (Twitter/Danish Siddiqui )

Sporadic clashes during farmers protest. (Twitter/ Danish Siddiqui)

Indian army soldiers walk past their parked trucks at a makeshift transit camp before heading to Ladakh Ladakh, near Baltal, southeast of Srinagar, June 16, 2020. (Twitter/Danish Siddiqui)

A group of men chanting pro-Hindu slogans, beat Mohammad Zubair, 37, who is Muslim, during protests sparked by a new citizenship law in New Delhi, India, February 24, 2020. (Reuters)

A soldier eats ice cream as she visits a zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea, September 12, 2018. (Reuters)

A man is pulled across to safety on a rope, as damaged buildings and the Alaknanda river are seen in the background, during a rescue operation in Govindghat in the Himalayan state of Uttarakhand June 23, 2013. (Reuters)