Existing comment:
Nils Horner
Organization: Sveriges Radio
Year: 2014
Country: Afghanistan
Bio:
Swedish radio journalist Nils Horner was on his way to interview a man who had survived a suicide bombing at a popular restaurant in Kabul when two men shot him in the back of the head in a brazen daylight attack. When colleagues called Horner's cellphone after hearing reports of a shooting, a doctor answered and told them he was dead. Horner was 51. A seasoned foreign correspondent, he had documented the fall of the Taliban in 2001, the Iraq War in 2003 and the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004. More than 20 journalists have been killed covering the war in Afghanistan since 2001, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. |