Tim Hetherington, right went to Libya to take pics of the war but ended up as a naked corpse at the morgue in Misrata.
A highly acclaimed British war photographer who was nominated for an Oscar has been killed in a mortar attack by forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi inside the besieged city of Misrata.
Tim Hetherington, 41, a four time winner of the world press photographer award, died along with an American agency journalist when they were apparently deliberately targeted by Gaddafi's forces this morning.
Born in Liverpool and educated at Oxford Univeristy, Mr Hetherington also won an award last year at the Sundance Film festival for his highly-acclaimed documentary Restrepo, a film about the war in Afghanistan. The film was nominated for an Oscar this year.
Chris Hondros, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images, also died yesterday after being seriously wounded, according to the company's director of photography, Pancho Bernasconi. Two other journalists were injured and last night being treated in hospital.
New-York based photographer Chris Hondros is also in the morgue in Misrata.
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