Sharon Herbaugh

Sharon Herbaugh

Herbaugh died along with 14 others enroute to writing a story on the excruciating efforts to clean up the tens of thousands of landmines left behind in Afghanistan by retreating Soviet forces, mines that were killing and maiming hundreds of children. She had covered the war in Afghanistan for four years and was the first woman among 22 AP reporters and photographers killed in the line of duty beginning in 1938.