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Luke Somers
Organization: Freelance
Year: 2014
Country: Yemen
Bio:
A Navy SEAL rescue team was less than 100 yards from the compound in Yemen where American photojournalist Luke Somers was being held by al-Qaida terrorists. But a barking dog alerted his captors, sparking a fierce firefight. By the time the SEALs reached Somers and South African hostage Pierre Korkie, they were dying from gunshot wounds. Somers was 33. Kidnapped in 2013 as he left a grocery store in Yemen, Somers was last seen in a video released online by al-Qaida three days before he died. Somers went to Yemen in 2010 to teach English but stayed to document the Arab Spring uprising and its aftermath for the BBC, Al-Jazeera and The New York Times. |