Tim Hetherington killed in Libya

MUMBAI: Tim Hetherington who co-directed Restrepo is no more.

Hetherington was killed while covering the Libyan conflict on Wednesday.

was An award winning photographer and documentary filmmaker, Hetherington was covering the conflict at Libya for a photo agency.

His co-produced and co-directed venture Restrepo with Sebastian Junger won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy award. The film, a feature-length documentary, chronicles the deployment of a platoon of US soldiers in Afghanistan’s Korengal Valley.

Hetherington has reported on conflict and human rights issues for more than ten years. His coverage of the 2003 Liberian civil war resulted in the film Liberia: an Uncivil War