Photo of fatal shooting of Nagai wins Pulitzer Prize

NEW YORK, United States - Reuters photographer Adrees Latif (file photo) has won the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news photography with his reporting on the fatal shooting of Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai by security forces in Myanmar on Sept. 27 in 2007, the Pulitzer Board said on April 7 in New York.

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