Restrepo Director Tim Hetherington And Pulitzer Prize-Nominated Photographer Chris Hondros Killed In Misurata



Two Journalists, Including Restrepo Director, Killed In Misurata -- The National

MISURATA, LIBYA // On Saturday evening, Tim Hetherington, the director of the Oscar-nominated documentary Restrepo, and Chris Hondros, a Pulitzer Prize-nominated photographer, hitched a ride to this besieged city on the Ionian Spirit, where they prepared sandwiches for refugees and talked about their plans back home. On Wednesday evening, the ship ferried the bodies of the two renowned journalists back to Benghazi.

The two journalists were fatally wounded during an attack by Col Muammar Qaddafi’s forces against rebels in Misurata. Two other photojournalists suffered injuries, some critical, according to doctors at the hospital where they were treated.

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