By IANS,
Washington : Photojournalist Tim Hetherington has been killed in Libya’s troubled city of Misrata, a media report said Thursday.
Two other photographers were hurt when they were hit by a rocket-propelled grenade (RPG) Wednesday. Hetherington was 41 years old.
“The only thing we know is that he (Hetherington) was hit by an RPG with the other guys,” CNN quoted Cathy Saypol of Cathy Saypol Public Relations, a New York based publicity firm, as saying.
The journalists were walking in the frontline area at the end of Tripoli Street in the western edge of Misrata when the RPG exploded, according to a town resident. The group was with rebel fighters.
Hetherington’s last Twitter entry appears to have been made Tuesday: “In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO,” according to CNN.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Hetherington won an Academy Award nomination this year for “Restrepo”, a documentary film he co-directed with journalist Sebastian Junger. Employed by Panos Pictures, he also worked in Afghanistan two years ago with CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta.
Vanity Fair magazine, where Hetherington was a contributing photographer, described him as “widely respected … for his bravery and camaraderie”.
Its profile says he had dual US and British citizenships.