2 Western photojournalists killed in Libya

2007 photo byTim Hetherington, AP, Outpost Films

Photographer Tim Hetherington was killed Wednesday in Misrata, Libya, while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces.

EnlargeClose2007 photo byTim Hetherington, AP, Outpost Films

Photographer Tim Hetherington was killed Wednesday in Misrata, Libya, while covering battles between rebels and Libyan government forces.

British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the documentary Restrepo about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer. The city has come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops.

Chris Hondros, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images, was also killed. His work appeared in major magazines and newspapers around the world, and his awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the highest prizes in war photography.

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