15 powerful pictures of Danish Siddiqui, the award winning photojournalist killed in Afghanistan
Updated: July 17, 2021 10:16:34 am- 1 / 15
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)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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Cremations of COVID-19 victims on the banks of the river Ganges in a town in Uttar Pradesh, India.(Twitter/Danish Siddiqui)
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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)
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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)
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Scenes from inside a COVID-19 hospital, amidst the spread of the coronavirus disease in New Delhi, India April 15, 2021. (Twitter/Danish Siddiqui)
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At a covid hospital in Delhi during the peak of second wave (Twitter/Danish Siddiqui)
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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 )
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Sporadic clashes during farmers protest. (Twitter/ Danish Siddiqui)
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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)
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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)
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A soldier eats ice cream as she visits a zoo in Pyongyang, North Korea, September 12, 2018. (Reuters)
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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)