CNN war photojournalist Margaret Moth dies aged 59

Margaret Moth, who covered wars for more than two decades as a photojournalist for CNN, has died.

"For those of us lucky enough to have known and worked with Margaret, she was truly one of a kind. She lived her life full-on without holding back," CNN's senior vice president of international newsgathering, Parisa Khosravi, told staff.

In two decades, Moth covered "every war zone and major story", Khosravi said. In 1992 she was shot in the face by a sniper in Sarajevo, a near-fatal injury, but she survived.

"I remember being there when she arrived at the Mayo Clinic, her head was all bandaged up and she could not speak, but she was fully alert," described Khosravi. 

"I gave her a pen and paper and she jokingly wrote: 'I want to go back to Sarajevo to look for my teeth.' True to her word, she went back to Bosnia when the doctors cleared her a few months later, and continued to volunteer for the toughest assignments.

"She did not complain of the incredible physical pain and health challenges that she faced in all the years since the attack. She loved life and had no regrets."

Moth died of cancer on Sunday, aged 59. A CNN tribute to Moth can be viewed at this link, while a documentary on her life and work made in 2009 can be viewed at this link.

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