AFP awarded six prestigious photo prizes
04/16/2011 - Otsuchi, Japan - AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba
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04/16/2011 - Otsuchi, Japan - AFP / Yasuyoshi Chiba
Massoud Hossaini (30) from Afghanistan won first prize in the “International News” category for a photograph of a little girl dressed in green crying in the midst of the victims of an attack in Kabul on 6 December 2011 that left 80 dead and 150 wounded.
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GERMANY, HANOVER : Unidentified relatives of a German soldier killed in Afghanistan comfort each other following a funeral ceremony outside the Evangelische Epiphanias Church during a memorial service in the northern German city of Hanover, June 3, 2011. The three were killed in a bomb attack in Afghanistan on May 28, 2011. AFP PHOTO / JOHN MACDOUGALL
He won the prize, one of the most prestigious in journalism, for his picture of a girl screaming in the aftermath of a suicide attack in Kabul in December 2011.
06/12/2011 - Kabul, Afghanistan - AFP/Massoud Hossaini
Iran-based Behrouz Mehri won two prizes in the photojournalism feature category for his images of street children and heroin addicts in the strife-torn southern Pakistani city of Karachi.

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Jay Directo is 3rd in the « International News » category for his picture of children searching for objects to sell in Manila in August 2011.

Manpreet Romana receives the honorable mention in the « International News » category for the picture of this child crying during his father’s funeral, who died when their apartment building collapsed in New Dehli on November 15th, 2010.
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