- Title: TURKEY: French photographer wounded in Syria dies of shrapnel wounds
- Date: 25th February 2013
- Summary: UNKNOWN LOCATION, SYRIA (RECENT) (MUTE) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF STILLS OF FRENCH PHOTOGRAPHER OLIVIER VOISIN
- Embargoed: 12th March 2013 12:00
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- Location: Turkey
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- Country: Turkey
- Topics: Communications,Conflict
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- Story Text: A French freelance photographer working in Syria has died after being hit by shrapnel while covering an opposition group for Reporters Without Borders.
A French freelance photographer working in Syria has died after being hit by shrapnel while covering an opposition group for Reporters Without Borders, the French government said on Sunday (February 24).
Olivier Voisin was following the operations of an armed opposition group near Idlib, in northwestern Syria, Reporters Without Borders said.
Voisin's friend Alex Monchovet said they were hoping to take him to a hospital in Paris but his condition was critical.
"When we learned he had to stay here, we understood that that his condition was very critical and it was a matter of days, even hours," Monchovet said.
Voisin, born in 1974, was taken to the international hospital in the Turkish border city of Antakya but subsequently died from wounds to his head and arm, the office of French President Francois Hollande said in a statement. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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