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Photographer Anton Hammerl 'killed by Libyan troops'

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South African-born Anton Hammerl was killed in an "extremely remote location" in the Libyan desert on 5 April, the family said in a statement.

Three foreign journalists, released earlier this week, said they were with him at the time he was killed.

The family described as "intolerably cruel" the weeks of assurances from Libyan officials that he was alive.

"On 5 April, Anton was shot by Gaddafi's forces in an extremely remote location in the Libyan desert," the statement from the family said.
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