Soviet Photographer Slain in Afghanistan
The Soviet government newspaper Izvestia said Thursday that one of its photographers was killed in an ambush near Kabul while trying to gather material about the withdrawal of Soviet troops from Afghanistan beginning May 15.
Alexander Sekretarev, 29, was riding in a military convoy toward the Salang Tunnel, the main exit route for the estimated 115,000 Soviet troops, when it was ambushed Wednesday by Muslim rebels, Izvestia said. Another Izvestia photographer, Sergei Sevruk, was seriously injured and others in the convoy were killed or wounded.
Two of Sekretarev’s pictures, showing Soviet soldiers and an Afghan woman and child, were published on the front page of Thursday’s Izvestia.
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