- Volker Handloik
Volker Handloik (
July 19 1961 –November 11 2001 ) was a German freelance journalist and reporter. Born inRostock, Germany , he worked for the Hamburg-based Stern for 10 years and also did some correspondence for newspapers, journals, and magazines such as theFrankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ,Süddeutsche Zeitung , taz,Berliner Zeitung ,National Geographic , Stern, Focus,mare , Geo,Merian , and theSpiegel Reporter . [http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9905EFDC1038F930A25752C1A9679C8B63 A NATION CHALLENGED: THE NEWS MEDIA; Two French Radio Journalists and a German Are Killed in Taliban Ambush of a Rebel Force] , "The New York Times ", November 13, 2001] Handloik, who spoke Russian and Spanish fluently often traveled to the former Soviet republics and to South America and had been working in northern Afghanistan since October 2001.Death
Handloik, along with French journalists
Johanne Sutton andPierre Billaud , was killed in an ambush inDasht-e Qaleh ,Takhar Province ,Afghanistan onNovember 11 2001 . The trio were travelling on a Northern Alliance armoured personnel carrier when they came under attack byTaliban troops withmachine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher. Australian journalistPaul McGeough and French journalistVéronique Reyberotte survived the attack. According to McGeough Handloik died instantly from a bullet womb to the head.Reaction
After learning of Handloik's death, Stern's chief editor
Thomas Osterkorn remarkedReferences
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