Bashar al-Attar, Syria

Photographer Bashar al-Attar died from injuries he received in an airstrike in eastern Ghouta, Syria on March 12, 2018. Al-Attar was covering airstrikes in the city of Arbin for Arbin Unified Media Office, when he was hit by a shrapnel from an airstrike. The photographer was gravely injured and died from his wounds on in a nearby hospital on March 14.

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