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Anja Niedringhaus
Organization: The Associated Press
Year: 2014
Country: Afghanistan
Bio:
Associated Press photographer Anja Niedringhaus spent years documenting the war in Afghanistan, embedding with Afghan troops and traveling to remote regions. No stranger to violence, she had been blown out of her car by a grenade in Kosovo, hit by a sniper's bullet in Sarajevo and wounded by shrapnel in Afghanistan. In 2014, Niedringhaus and her colleague Kathy Gannon were covering preparations for Afghanistan's presidential elections when they were stopped at a security checkpoint. A police commander approached their car and opened fire with his AK-47. Niedringhaus, who was 48, died instantly. Gannon was severely wounded. In 2005, Niedringhaus was part of the team of AP photographers whose coverage of the war in Iraq won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography. |