"restrepo" Director Tim Hetherington Killed In Libya: Doctors

MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - Photojournalist Tim Hetherington, the co-director of Oscar-nominated war documentary "Restrepo," died in the besieged Libyan town of Misrata on Wednesday, doctors said.

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