When an assassination takes place, it is rare to find a professional news photographer on the scene, capturing the act and the killer's expression just seconds afterwards.
But when Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was killed by a Turkish policeman in Ankara on Monday, Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici was unexpectedly in the front row.
Ozbilici took images in the Ankara art gallery while the killer was shouting wildly and waving a gun in the air.
"I was, of course, fearful and knew of the danger if the gunman turned toward me," Ozbilici wrote on a widely shared blog, posted by AP after the incident.
He also wrote of watching a life that "disappeared before my eyes".
Warning: Graphic images follow
When an assassination takes place, it is rare to find a professional news photographer on the scene, capturing the act and the killer's expression just seconds afterwards.But when Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov was killed by a Turkish policeman in Ankara on Monday, Associated Press photographer Burhan Ozbilici was unexpectedly in the front row.Ozbilici took images in the Ankara art gallery while the killer was shouting wildly and waving a gun in the air."I was, of course, fearful and knew of the danger if the gunman turned toward me," Ozbilici wrote on a widely shared blog, posted by AP after the incident.He also wrote of watching a life that "disappeared before my eyes".Warning: Graphic images follow
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