By: Writter OD
David Gilkey, an NPR photojournalist who chronicled pain and beauty
in war and conflict, was killed in Afghanistan on Sunday along with
NPR's Afghan interpreter Zabihullah Tamanna. David and
Zabihullah were on assignment for the network traveling with an Afghan
army unit. They were in an armored Humvee driven by a soldier of the
Afghan National Army. All three were killed after the Humvee was hit by
rocket propelled grenades in an apparent ambush. NPR Pentagon
correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Monika Evstatieva were also in the
convoy, traveling in a separate vehicle. They were not injured. Tom
reports that when the journalists' remains arrived by helicopter at
Camp Shorab in Helmand Province — where the U.S. Army 10th Mountain
Division has a training mission — an honor guard of "dozens and dozens"
of U.S. soldiers stood at attention and saluted.
