
Photo Credit: -Photo courtesy Beawiharta, Reuters |
HARRY BURTON
News Organization: REUTERS
Died: 2001
Location:
AFGHANISTAN
War:
AFGHANISTAN: WAR ON TERROR (2001-)
Ambushed Nov. 19 as he and three colleagues traveled on the road from Jalalabad to Kabul, Afghanistan's capital. The journalists were riding in the second and third vehicles in a four-truck convoy when they were stopped by six gunmen, taken into the mountains and shot. Also murdered: reporters Maria Grazia Cutuli and Julio Fuentes and photographer Azizullah Haidari. Burton, 33, was an Australian TV cameraman for his London-based wire service. One witness heard a gunman shout, "The Taliban are still here!" The journalists did not have an armed escort.
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