- Title: Slain Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui buried in New Delhi
- Date: 19th July 2021
- Summary: NEW DELHI, INDIA (JULY 18, 2021) (REUTERS) (NIGHT SHOTS) PALLBEARERS CARRYING COFFIN OF REUTERS JOURNALIST DANISH SIDDIQUI, WHO WAS KILLED WHILE COVERING CLASHES BETWEEN AFGHAN SECURITY FORCES AND TALIBAN FIGHTERS NEAR A BORDER CROSSING WITH PAKISTAN, INSIDE PREMISES OF JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA UNIVERSITY PEOPLE GATHERED FOR FUNERAL PRAYERS COFFIN LYING ON STRETCHER/PEOPLE GETTING READY FOR FUNERAL PRAYERS CLERIC STANDING BEFORE COFFIN/PEOPLE GATHERED CLERIC ASKING PEOPLE TO BE QUIET/CLERIC LEADING PRAYERS PEOPLE STANDING DURING PRAYERS PEOPLE PRAYING VARIOUS OF PEOPLE CARRYING SIDDIQUI'S COFFIN FOR BURIAL VARIOUS OF SIDDIQUI'S BODY BEING BURIED
- Embargoed: 2nd August 2021 16:46
- Keywords: Afghan forces Afghanistan Danish Siddiqui India Jamia Millia Islamia university New Delhi Reuters Spin Boldak Taliban burial journalist photographer
- Location: NEW DELHI, INDIA/KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
- City: NEW DELHI, INDIA/KABUL, AFGHANISTAN
- Country: India
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Conflicts/War/Peace
- Reuters ID: LVA001EMIB9S7
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text:Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui was buried late on Sunday (July 18) in New Delhi after his remains were repatriated back from Afghanistan where he was killed while covering clashes between Afghan security forces and Taliban.
Hundreds of his friends, family and colleagues attended his burial that took place in the grounds of the same university from where he had graduated as a student of mass communication.
Afghan special forces had been fighting to retake the main market area of Spin Boldak when Siddiqui and a senior Afghan officer were killed in what they described as Taliban crossfire, the official told Reuters.
A native of New Delhi, Siddiqui, 38, is survived by his wife Rike and two young children.
Siddiqui had been embedded as a journalist last week with Afghan special forces based in the southern province of Kandahar and had been reporting on fighting between Afghan commandos and Taliban fighters.
Siddiqui was part of the Reuters photography team to win the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis, a series described by the judging committee as "shocking photographs that exposed the world to the violence Rohingya refugees faced in fleeing Myanmar."
A Reuters photographer since 2010, Siddiqui's work spanned the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Rohingya refugee crisis, the Hong Kong protests and Nepal earthquakes.
In recent months, his searing photographs capturing the coronavirus pandemic in India have been published across the world.
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