Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed after he was left behind with two soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces while others in ...
Indian photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was killed after he was left behind with two soldiers of the Afghan Special Forces while others in the same group retreated, during an attack by the Taliban, an investigative report by news agency Reuters said on Tuesday.
The photojournalist was killed on July 16 while covering the Afghan conflict for the news agency.
Initial reports had cited an Afghan forces commander who said that before the journalist and a senior military officer were killed in the Taliban crossfire, the personnel were trying to recapture the main market area of Afghanistan’s Spin Boldak district.
The Reuters investigation found that the last location of Siddiqui’s phone was on the Spin Boldak-Kandahar route. The news agency could not verify all the details that led to the journalist’s death, but a ballistic expert has confirmed that Siddiqui was shot multiple times after he was killed.
After a majority of the Afghan forces retreated, one of the special forces officer who was stranded along with Siddiqui was contacted through his phone, Reuters reported.
A man, who identified himself as a Taliban fighter, answered the call and asked why Indians were being brought into the fight.
“Don’t shoot him. He is a journalist,” the Afghan forces officer reportedly said on the call. To this, the...
