Slain Photojournalist's Body Mutilated Beyond Recognition

An Indian photojournalist was kidnapped by the Taliban and executed, then his body was mutilated, Afghan officials say. Danish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer Prize-winner working for Reuters, was ambushed while covering fighting in the Spin Boldak region, near Afghanistan’s border with Pakistan, in mid-July, the Hindu reports. Siddiqui managed to tweet video of some of the attack. Photos taken of Siddiqui’s body shortly after he was killed clearly show wounds. But when his body was taken by the Red Cross to a city in Kandahar, Afghanistan, it was mutilated to the point of being unrecognizable, the New York Times reports.