Reuters group’s chief Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed on July 16. When he was busy covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban fighters near a border crossing with Pakistan. The Afghan security forces had been fighting to retake the main market area of Spin Boldak when Danish Siddiqui and a Senior Afghan officer were killed in the Taliban’s crossfire.
The brave journalist had been working for about a week with Afghan special forces based in the southern province of Kandahar and had been reporting on fighting between Afghans and the Taliban.
Siddiqui was worked with the Reuters group since 2010. He boldly covered the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Rohingya refugee crisis, the Hong Kong protests, and Nepal earthquakes, etc.
He was the famous 2018, Pulitzer prize winner Photojournalist from the Reuters News Agency 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”.
Here are five powerful pictures by Danish Siddiqui:
In one of his last pictures, Siddiqui photographed a member of Afghan special forces firing at Taliban fighters at a check post in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province.
Siddiqui’s pictures of mass cremations of Covid-19 victims at funeral grounds in Delhi.
In April 2020, Siddiqui covered the exodus of tens of thousands of migrant workers from India’s cities following a sweeping lockdown to prevent the spreading of coronavirus.
In August 2017, a deadly crackdown by Myanmar’s army on Rohingya Muslims sent hundreds of thousands fleeing across the border into Bangladesh.
In September, Siddiqui took this picture of an exhausted Rohingya refugee woman touching the shore after crossing the Bangladesh-Myanmar border by boat.
Siddiqui travelled to smaller cities and villages to chronicle the unfolding tragedy. In the mountainous Uttarakhand state, he took this picture of a Covid-19 patient being taken to a local dispensary by her nephew.
