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Ian Berry obituary
Photojournalist whose arresting images captured human disaster from Vietnam to Aberfan, and most notably in apartheid South Africa On 21 March 1960, a crowd gathered outside a police station in a Transvaal township, part of a nationwide protest against apartheid pass laws used to control where black South Africans could live, work and travel. A young British photojournalist pushed his way to the front and took a few pictures of police across the fence who were standing atop their armoured personnel carriers. With nothing much happening, he turned back and headed for his car. Then – without warning – there was the sound of heavy gunfire. The photographer, Ian Berry, who has died aged 92, captured images of the carnage, which soon became known around the world as the Sharpeville massacre . Dozens of demonstrators were killed, many shot in the back as they fled, and hundreds were injured in
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Photojournalist whose arresting images captured human disaster from Vietnam to Aberfan, and most notably in apartheid South Africa On 21 March 1960, a crowd gathered outside a police station in a Transvaal township, part of a nationwide protest against apartheid pass laws used to control where black South Africans could live, work and travel. A young British photojournalist pushed his way to the front and took a few pictures of police across the fence who were standing atop their armoured personnel carriers. With nothing much happening, he turned back and headed for his car. Then – without warning – there was the sound of heavy gunfire. The photographer, Ian Berry, who has died aged 92, captured images of the carnage, which soon became known around the world as the Sharpeville massacre . Dozens of demonstrators were killed, many shot in the back as they fled, and hundreds were injured in
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According to The Guardian’s source item, Ian Berry obituary, Photojournalist whose arresting images captured human disaster from Vietnam to Aberfan, and most notably in apartheid South Africa On 21 March 1960, a crowd gathered outside a police station in a Transvaal township, part of a nationwide protest against apartheid pass laws used to control where black South Africans could live, work and travel. A young British photojournalist pushed his way to the front and took a few pictures of police across the fence who were standing atop their armoured personnel carriers. With nothing much happening, he turned back and headed for his car. Then – without warning – there was the sound of heavy gunfire. The photographer, Ian Berry, who has died aged 92, captured images of the carnage, which soon became known around the world as the Sharpeville massacre . Dozens of demonstrators were killed, many shot in the back as they fled, and hundreds were injured in
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