Two western
journalists were killed in Libya as heavy fighting continued over night in the
city of Misrata, al-Jazeera channel reported on Thursday.

People wait for the arrival of vehicles carrying bodies of British photographer and Oscar-nominated documentary director Tim Hetherington and American photographer Chris Hondros who works for Getty Images in Benghazi, Libya, on April 21, 2011. The two western journalists were killed in Libya as heavy fighting continued over night in the city of Misrata, al-Jazeera channel reported on Thursday. (Xinhua/Li Yuan)

British photographer and
Oscar-nominated documentary director Tim Hetherington, 41, was killed during
mortar attacks in Tripoli street in Misrata.

Also, American
photographer Chris Hondros who works for Getty Images lost his life at hospital
in Misrata due to serious brain injuries.

Doctors at a hospital in
Misrata said they received on Wednesday up to 100 injured people, mostly
civilians.

“The situation was
relatively calm at this time, and then all of a sudden a mortar shell was fired
and we heard explosions,” said a Spanish photographer who was accompanying the
late journalists.

Also al-Jazeera reported
the death of a correspondent in Libya while covering the conflicts there.

On the other side, Libyan
government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim said that the Libyan government felt
“sorrow” over the journalist deaths; however, he added that “people die from our
side and the other side; they get caught in the middle.”

The state-run
Al-Jamahiriya TV channel put the death toll over the past 24 hours to 11
civilians in addition to 18 injured. Meanwhile, the opposition said that
Gaddafi’s forces are using tanks and artillery to pound homes in the eastern
city of Misrata.

Misrata is currently under
a continuous and heavy shelling from pro-Gaddafi forces, attacks that entered
its seventh week and leaving scores of civilians dead and injured.

VietNamNet/Xinhuanet