Agence France-Presse chief photographer Shah Marai died in a suicide attack in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday.
He was one of nine journalists killed during dual bomb blasts in Afghanistan's capital.
Security forces run from the site of a suicide attack after the second explosion in Kabul, April 30, 2018. A coordinated double suicide bombing hit central Kabul.
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According to The Associated Press, the first suicide bomber was on a motorbike while the second attacker was among the crowd of reporters that rushed to the scene of the first attack, pretending to be one of the media, police said. The second attacker then detonated his explosives while still among the reporters, according to police.
Security forces from the Northern Alliance enter Kabul, Nov. 13, 2001. Northern Alliance commander Gul Haider said the resistance was keeping its main force out of the capital for the time being. 'We have not allowed our mujahedins to enter the city, we have only sent police forces', he said. The US pleaded with the opposition to surround but not enter Kabul to allow time for political arrangements to be finalized.
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In a statement released by the AFP, Marai had worked for the AFP since 1996, when he started as a driver and fixer. He later became a photographer, then head photographer.
An Afghan man walks past a blood-spattered wall following a Taliban led suicide attack at Kabul's airport, July 17, 2014.
Hazara Afghan children sit inside their cave in the old city of Bamiyan, June 19, 2015. Carved into dun-coloured cliffs, hundreds of manmade caves situated next to empty niches that once sheltered giant Buddha statues destroyed by the Taliban are home to Bamiyan's poverty-stricken who have nowhere else to go.
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After the Taliban were ousted from power in 2001, Marai, who comes from the Shamali Plain north of Kabul, covered the country’s many upheavals, AFP reported.
Afghan National Army (ANA) officers march during a graduation ceremony at the Ghazi Military Training Centre in Kabul, March 31, 2011.
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Marai leaves behind six children including a daughter born only a few weeks ago, the AFP said.
Afghan police arrive at the site of a suicide attack in front of Kabul's military airport, July 17, 2014.
Afghan men hold chains as they wait to take part in ritual self-flagellation to celebrate the Muslim festival of Ashura, at a mosque in Kabul, Jan. 15, 2008.
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AFP’s global news director Michele Leridon said in a statement, “We can only honor the strength, the courage and the generosity of a photographer who covered often traumatizing events with sensitivity and professionalism.”
This photo taken in 2013 shows Agence France-Presse (AFP) photographer Shah Marai sitting in a helicopter with a member of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) while on assignment in Afghanistan.
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Friends and relatives of Agence France Presse (AFP) Afghanistan Chief Photographer Shah Marai Faizi gather at his burial in Gul Dara, Kabul, April 30, 2018, after his death in the second of two bombings that occurred in the Afghan capital.
