Tripoli: Two photojournalists including an Oscar-nominated war-film director and a second prize-winning photojournalist have been killed in clashes between rebels and Libyan government forces in the western city of Misrata.
British-born Tim Hetherington, co-director of the 2010 documentary “Restrepo” about US soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed, said his US-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer.
Chris Hondros, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images, died later Wednesday after suffering a serious head wound, according to Getty’s director of photography, Pancho Bernasconi.
Two other Western photographers apparently working alongside them were wounded.
Meanwhile, Rebel fighters stranded in Misurata have claimed killing 50 soldiers loyal to Col Muammar Gaddafi and captured 14 trucks of ammunition, is one of their biggest victories of the siege.
Severe clashes have beeb fought between the two sides to the town’s east where regime forces are trying to capture and cut off the rebels from the Ghasr Ahmad docks.
A rebel spokesman said fighting had been fiercest close to the “heavy road” which bypasses the town to take port traffic to the main Benghazi to Tripoli highway.
“We captured 14 vehicles full of ammunition and four anti-aircraft guns mounted on vehicles,” he told The Daily Telegraph.
“The dead Gaddafi troops are over 50 with many arrested. No martyrs from our side, but many wounded. The hospital is full with the wounded.”
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