Volker Handloik
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Volker Handloik (19 July 1961 – 11 November 2001) was a German freelance journalist and reporter. Born in
National Geographic, Stern, Focus, mare, Geo, Merian, and the Spiegel Reporter.[1] 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.[1]
Death
Handloik, along with
machine guns and a rocket-propelled grenade launcher.[1] Australian journalist Paul McGeough and French journalist Véronique Reyberotte survived the attack.[1] According to McGeough, Handloik died instantly from a bullet wound to the head.[1]
Reaction
After learning of Handloik's death, Stern's chief editor Thomas Osterkorn remarked
The death of Volker Handloik has left us all speechless. Our sympathy goes out to his relatives and those of the other journalists killed with him.[1]
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