NPR Photographer David Gilkey Killed in Afghanistan

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David Gilkey took this photo in Sadr City, Iraq in August 2004 during a skirmish while embedded with the U.S. Army's 1st Cavalry. Photo: David P. Gilkey-Pool/Getty Images

David Gilkey took this photo in Sadr City, Iraq in August 2004 during a skirmish while embedded with the U.S. Army’s 1st Cavalry. Photo: David P. Gilkey-Pool/Getty Images

American photographer and videographer David Gilkey of NPR and his translator, Zabihullah Tamanna, were was killed on Sunday afternoon in a Taliban ambush in southern Afghanistan, The New York Times reported.

Gilkey was part of a four-person NPR team embedded with Afghan Special Forces in Helmand Province. Two other American journalists on the team were unhurt.

Gilkey was the first American journalist not in the military killed during the 15-year-long Afghan conflict.

The Committee to Protect Journalists reports that since 1992, at least 27 journalists have been killed in Afghanistan.