The Fort Worth Press - AFP journalists, employees killed on duty or in attacks

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AFP journalists, employees killed on duty or in attacks
AFP journalists, employees killed on duty or in attacks / Photo: © AFP

AFP journalists, employees killed on duty or in attacks

Like Arman Soldin, a video reporter killed in eastern Ukraine on Tuesday, several other AFP journalists and staff have died on mission or in attacks since the news agency's creation in 1944.

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Soldin, 32, was killed by rocket fire near Chasiv Yar, a town close to Bakhmut, the focus of fighting for months between Ukrainian and Russian forces, AFP journalists who witnessed the incident said.

Here are the Agence France-Presse journalists, whether full time or freelance, and other employees who have died while on mission or in attacks.

- May 2023 - UKRAINE: Arman Soldin, AFP video coordinator in Ukraine.

- July 2018 - AFGHANISTAN: Mohammad Akhtar, driver.

- April 2018 - AFGHANISTAN: Shah Marai, chief photographer.

- April 2018 - YEMEN: Abdullah al-Qadry, photographer and videographer.

- May 2017 - MEXICO: Javier Valdez, stringer.

- August 2014 - SYRIA: James Foley, independent journalist.

- March 2014 - AFGHANISTAN: Sardar Ahmad, journalist.

- April 2006 - IRAQ: Salah Jalil Al Gharraoui, administrative director.

- May 2005 - IRAQ: Raed Jaffat, correspondent.

- May 2005 - ITALY: Paolo Cocco, photographer.

- December 2004 - GAMBIA: Deyda Hydara, correspondent.

- July 2003 - RUSSIA/INGUSHETIA: Ali Astamirov, correspondent.

- June 2003 - DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: Acquitte Kisembo, correspondent.

- October 1995 - TUNISIA: Georges Bendrihem, photographer.

- September 1995 - KASHMIR: Mushtaq Ali, photographer.

- April 1994 - IRAQI KURDISTAN: Lissy Schmidt, correspondent.

- December 1989 - EL SALVADOR: Eloy Guevara, photographer.

- June 1975 - FRANCE: Bernard Cabanes, journalist.

- March 1975 - VIETNAM: Paul Leandri, journalist.

- April 1974 - LAOS/CAMBODIA: Marc Fillioux, correspondent.

- December 1969 - VIETNAM: Alain Saint-Paul, journalist.

- September 1962 - UNITED STATES: Paul Guihard, journalist.

- February 1951 - KOREA: Jean-Marie de Premonville, journalist.

- July 1950 - JAPAN: Maximilien Philonenko, journalist.

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T.Gilbert--TFWP