Luke Somers, Killed in Failed Rescue Attempt, Remembered for Compassionate Photos

December 8, 2014 Marco | Editor

© Luke Somers for Al Jazeera. Thousands of male and female protesters marched to the residence of President And Mansour Hadi to demand political reforms, December 7, 2012.

Kidnapped photojournalist Luke Somers was killed December 5 in the midst of a failed attempt by US forces to rescue him from al Qaeda militants holding him hostage in Yemen. Somers, who had been kidnapped in Sana’a, Yemen, in September 2013, had been working in the country as a freelance photographer.

After President Barack Obama announced Somers’s death on Saturday, several news outlets that Somers had worked for, including Al Jazeera, <a target=_blank title="Luke Somers …read more

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Marco | Editor

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