[IN PICS] Tributes Pour In For Photojournalist Danish Siddiqui Killed During Afghan-Taliban Clashes

Pulitzer Prize-winning Reuters Chief Photographer Danish Siddiqui was killed in clashes that ensued in Kandahar's Spin Boldak district, a city in Afghanistan. The Indian journalist was covering the situation in Kandahar over the last few days. (Image: PTI)

Afghan government forces battled Friday to retake a border crossing with Pakistan from Taliban insurgents, and the Reuters news agency said one of its photographers was killed in the area. (Image: PTI)

Reuters said Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Siddiqui, who was embedded with the Afghan special forces, was killed Friday, July 16, 2021, as the commando unit sought to recapture Spin Boldak. (Image: PTI)

Danish Siddiqui regularly shared his work on social media and his last tweets covered Afghanistan where the Taliban is currently making territorial gains at a time when the United States and its allied armies are withdrawing. (Image: PTI)

Siddiqui had been actively posting images of the Afghan Special Forces on various frontlines across the country. He last posted photos on Instagram, on July 15 which had pictures documenting what he was witnessing there. (Image: PTI)

New Delhi: Danish graduated with a degree in Economics from Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi. He had a degree in Mass Communication from the AJK Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia in 2007. In memory of Reuters photojournalist Danish Siddique, Students and media fraternity hold peaceful candle lighting ceremony near Jamia. (Image: PTI)

New Delhi: WNCA with members of Press Club of India hold a candlelight praying meeting in remembrance of Pulitzer prize winner photojournalist Danish Siddiqu. (Image: PTI)

Mumbai: An art teacher gives finishing touch to a painting of Reuters journalist Danish Siddiqui, who was killed while covering a clash between Afghan security forces and Taliban near a border crossing with Pakistan. (Image: PTI)