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2 Western photojournalists killed in Libya, including "Restrepo " director Tim Hetherington

An aid ship on Thursday ferried the bodies of two Western photojournalists from the besieged Libyan city of Misrata to Benghazi after they were killed and two others working alongside them were wounded while covering battles between rebels and government forces.British-born Tim Hetherington, the Oscar-nominated co-director of the documentary "Restrepo" about U.S. soldiers on an outpost in Afghanistan, was killed Wednesday inside the only rebel-held city in western Libya, said his U.S.-based publicist, Johanna Ramos Boyer. The city has come under weeks of relentless shelling by government troops.Chris Hondros, a New York-based photographer for Getty Images, was also killed Wednesday. His work appeared in major magazines and newspapers around the world, and his awards include the Robert Capa Gold Medal, one of the highest prizes in war photography.Many circumstances of the incident were unclear. A statement from Hetherington's family said he was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade.The W...

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