Metro.usMyMetro Events http://www.metro.us Wed, 19 Jun 2013 06:34:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Chris Hondros: Selected Photos from Libya http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/03/12/chris-hondros-selected-photos-from-libya/ http://www.metro.us/newyork/news/2013/03/12/chris-hondros-selected-photos-from-libya/#comments Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:24:52 +0000 Danielle Tcholakian http://www.metro.us/newyork/?p=120792 Libyan rebel fighters carry out a comrade wounded during an effort to dislodge some ensconced government loyalist troops who were firing on them from a building during house-to-house fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata. This photo was taken the same day Hondros was killed. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) A Libyan rebel fighter runs up a burning stairwell during an effort to dislodge some ensconced government loyalist troops who were firing on them from an upstairs room. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) Rebel fighters carefully move into a building where they had trapped government loyalist troops. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) Libyan rebel forces fire a heavy rocket propelled grenade at a building holding government loyalist troops during street fighting on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) At a hospital in Misrata on April 19, 2011, Selima Abdullah (L) caresses her youngest granddaughter Heba, who suffered a ripped-open abdomen from shrapnel, after an explosive shell landing near her home two days earlier. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) A man cries in a graveyard during the funeral of Nasser Ali Afglio, a young Libyan rebel killed during battle with government troops. The simple graveyard where Nasser was buried apparently had hundreds of simple concrete graves; many dozens were those that had been killed during the last two months of fighting. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) A rebel fighter ducks from incoming fire at the front lines on Tripoli Street in downtown Misrata. At this point, the Libyan uprising was entering its third month. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) Doctors work on a baby who suffered cuts from shrapnel that blasted through the window of his home earlier in the morning on April 18, 2011. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) Hondros was particularly known for his work featuring children. In this photo, a 10-year-old boy named Ali Salem el-Faizani is shown working as a traffic cop in Benghazi. Schools had been closed throughout eastern Libya for nearly two months. "I like directing the cars around," Ali told Hondros. (Chris Hondros/Getty Images.) This photo was taken in Ajdabiyah, Libya, on April 13, 2011, in a hotel shot up by government loyalists several days earlier. Libyan army loyalists were apparently looking for foreign journalists, the last of which had fled less than an hour earlier, according to hotel staff. (Credit: Chris Hondros/Getty Images.)

These are some of the photos Chris Hondros took in Libya in the days before he was killed.  When Hondros took these photos, thousands of civilians were trapped in Misrata as fighting raged on between Libyan government forces that had surrounded the city and anti-government rebels there.

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