Post Photographer Michel du Cille Dies in Liberia
Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning photographer Michel du Cille has died
Washington Post photographer Michel du Cille, a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, died Thursday while on assignment covering the Ebola outbreak in Liberia.
In a note shared with the Post 's newsroom, Executive Editor Martin Baron said du Cille, 58, had collapsed during a 'strenuous hike' while returning from a village where he and a reporter had been working. He was first transported to a clinic and later to a hospital two hours away, Baron added, where he was pronounced dead. Du Cille had returned to Liberia two days earlier.
'We are all heartbroken,' Baron said. 'We have lost a beloved colleague and one of the world's most accomplished photographers.' Du Cille is survived by his wife, Post photographer Nikki Kahn, and two children.
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