Indian Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui Killed In Attack By Taliban In Afghanistan
Mumbai: Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize winner, has been killed in Kandahar while on a reporting assignment embedded with Afghan security forces, Afghanistan’s Ambassador to India Farid Mamundzay said on Friday.
“Deeply disturbed by the sad news of the killing of a friend, Danish Seddiqi in Kandahar last night. The Indian Journalist & winner of the Pulitzer Prize was embedded with Afghan security forces. I met him 2 weeks ago before his departure to Kabul. Condolences to his family & Reuters,” Mamundzay tweeted.
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Afghanistan’s Tolo news channel quoted sources as saying that Siddiqui was killed in the Spin Boldak district of Kandahar. It did not provide further details.
Siddiqui recently reported on a mission by Afghan special forces to rescue a policeman who was cut off from others and fought the Taliban alone for hours. His report included graphic images of rockets targeting vehicles of Afghan forces.
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Fierce fighting has been reported in and around the southern city of Kandahar, the capital of the province of the same name. The Taliban have captured key districts around the city and have deployed Afghan forces to a police district on the outskirts of the capital.
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India on July 10 evacuated around 50 diplomats, support staff and security personnel from an Indian Air Force flight from the consulate in Kandahar amid growing concerns about the security situation in the city.
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Over the past few days, Spin Boldak district has witnessed heavy fighting after the Taliban captured a key border crossing that links to Chaman in Pakistan’s Balochistan province.
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