Suicide bomber photo wins Pulitzer Prize

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Sunil

Covered in blood amid a tangled heap of dead mothers and children, 12-year-old Tarana Akbari punctuates the chaotic aftermath of a suicide attack with a scream for help.

When it appeared on the front page of the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times on December 7 2011, this image brought home the bloody reality of a war that has devastated the lives of ordinary people across Afghanistan.

Today it was honoured with a Pulitzer Prize, journalism's highest accolade.

Pulitzer Prize: This image appeared on the front page of the New York Times, The Washington Post and the Los Angeles Times on December 7 2011

It was taken by Massoud Hossaini who happened to be covering a Shiite religious ceremony at a shrine in Kabul for Agence France-Presse when the bomb ripped through the crowd. Sixty-three people were killed.

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Former Member

We must remind ourselves how lucky we are to live in NA with immeasurable freedom and still many complain. We may speak of atrocity, but we may never know how it feels to live each day among the dead. Those who live in war-torn countries know first-hand the reality of living one day at a time. How would it feel to see a heap of dead families on the street each day? Chief should take lesson and stop bad mouthing Guyana and the USA.

4/17/121:48 PM

alena06Senior Member

Very graphic and sad!

4/17/122:00 PM

Former Member

Heartrending photo depicting the act of heartless people.

4/17/122:32 PM

Former Member

sad

4/18/122:26 PM

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