NPR photographer, interpreter killed in Afghanistan

NPR&#039;s David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna.

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last updated 6 June 2016

While on assignment in Afghanistan on Sunday, an NPR photojournalist and interpreter were killed when the army unit they were traveling with came under attack.

Tamanna once worked as a photojournalist for the Chinese news agency Xinhua and as a writer for Turkey's Anadolu News Agency. Gilkey received an Emmy in 2007, a George Polk Award in 2010, and accolades from the White House News Photographers Association. He covered the end of apartheid in South Africa, the Ebola outbreak in Liberia, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti. After the quake, Gilkey told NPR: "It's not just reporting. It's not just taking pictures. It's do these visuals, do these stories, do they change somebody's mind enough to take action?"

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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