20 April 2011
Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros
Crossfire
Tim Hetherington and Chris Hondros, acclaimed photojournalists with experience of covering conflicts around the world, were killed in a mortar attack in the besieged Libyan city of Misrata.
Forty year-old Hetherington, who had dual British-US citizenship was a contributing photographer for Vanity Fair and 41-year-old American Hondros was a Getty photographer. The men had been covering the fighting on Misrata’s bitterly-contested Tripoli Street when the attack happened. Two other journalists were wounded in the incident.
British-born Hetherington, who was nominated for an Oscar for his documentary Restrepo about Afghanistan, posted on his Twitter account the day before he died, writing: "In besieged Libyan city of Misrata. Indiscriminate shelling by Qaddafi forces. No sign of NATO."
Images taken by Hondros of the house to house fighting on Tripoli Street had been published online shortly before the fatal mortar attack.
