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April 4, 2014

AP Photographer Shot Dead by Afghan Police Officer; Colleague Wounded 
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In Afghanistan, an Associated Press photographer has been shot dead by
an Afghan police officer while her colleague has been wounded. Anja
Niedringhaus, age 48, died instantly in the attack near the Pakistani
border; AP reporter Kathy Gannon survived. It is believed to be the
first time an Afghan police officer has intentionally killed a foreign
journalist. The pair were traveling with election workers delivering
ballots ahead of Saturday's presidential election. Niedringhaus was a
veteran German photographer who served on a team that won a Pulitzer
Prize in 2005 for photographing the Iraq War. She was previously hit by
a sniper's bullet while working in Sarajevo, blown out of a car by an
explosion in Kosovo, and mistakenly bombed by NATO in Albania along with
a number of other journalists in 1999. One of her last projects depicted
women lawmakers in Afghanistan. Her death follows the killings last
month in Afghanistan of AFP reporter Sardar Ahmad and Swedish radio
journalist Nils Horner.

 

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