Ahmed Assem: the Egyptian photographer who chronicled his own death

Ana Ghoib Syeikh Malaya 9:12 PTG

[pullquote_left]It proved that Egyptians army claim that civilians were the culprit in mass murder shooting are their own personel.[/pullquote_left]Egypt Cairo: In the video can be seen above he fires more than once and then, suddenly, turns the rifle and points toward the camera lens.
The film ends – and so too ended the life of Ahmed Samir Assem.


The 26-year-old photographer for Egypt’s Al-Horia Wa Al-Adala newspaper was among a least 51 people killed after security forces opened fire on a large crowd that had camped outside the Egyptian army’s Republican Guard officers’ club in Cairo, where Mohammed Morsi, the deposed president, was believed to be in detention.


Mr Assem had been on the scene as the pro-Muslim Brotherhood protesters knelt for prayer shortly before dawn on Monday morning reported by Telegraph.

According to friends and relatives, the moment of his own death was captured as the grainy film culminates.