A photographer filming a protest by members of Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood may have captured his own death on film.

Ahmed Samir Assem, 26, was photographing soldiers on rooftops outside the Egyptian Army’s Republican Guard officers’ club in Cairo Monday, where 51 people were killed in the deadliest night of violence in the last two weeks.

The footage shows an Egyptian soldier on a rooftop as he aims, fires and the screen goes to black. One hour later, Assem was reported dead.

“At around 6 a.m., a man came into the media center with a camera covered in blood and told us that one of our colleagues had been injured,” Ahmed Abu Zeid, editor of Al-Horia Wa Al-Adala, told The Daily Telegraph. “Around an hour later, I received news that Ahmed had been shot by a sniper in the forehead while filming or taking pictures on top of the buildings around the incident… Ahmed’s camera was the only one which filmed the entire incident from the first moment.”

Assem was on the front lines when intense fighting broke out Monday morning outside the officers’ club, where ousted president Mohammed Morsi was believed to be hiding out. It remains unclear who fired the first shot. The military maintains it fired in self-defense and the Muslim Brotherhood maintains that soldiers opened fire on a peaceful demonstration.

“We were starting morning prayers when we started hearing gunfire,” Mahmoud Fouad, 29, who was wounded on Monday, told ABC News. “They started shooting at us, bullets flying past our head. People were dying in front of me and everyone was getting hit in the back.”

Videos have also surfaced purporting to show Morsi-supporters attacking the army. ABC News is unable to confirm the exact circumstances of Monday’s violence that killed at least 51 and wounded more than 300.

But as the debate continues, the Brotherhood says Assem’s video will be used as evidence that the army is to blame for Monday’s massacre. A portion of the video attributed to Assem but not independently verified by ABC News, was shown at a Brotherhood press conference this week. Elsewhere, on Twitter, the Brotherhood mourned Assem’s death and posted a short video montage of the photographer’s life.

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/07/photographer-captures-his-own-death-on-camera/

Rip man,well i dont think any nigerian reporter is ready to go to such length b4 making their reports.most of them na copy and paste they specializes in.i hope dey take their job seriously and expose d ills their polilical jobbers are doing to d country.
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ninja4life: Rip man,well i dont think any nigerian reporter is ready to go to such learnt b4 making their reports.most of them na copy and paste they specializes in.i hope dey take their job seriously and expose d ills their polilical jobbers are doing to d country.

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Damn!! this Arab ppl are fearless.. It is all or nothing for them..I salute them. In our own clime...we are only good at speaking long english and retiring to our bowls of fufu after smoking tear gas.

ninja4life: Rip man,well i dont think any nigerian reporter is ready to go to such learnt b4 making their reports.most of them na copy and paste they specializes in.i hope dey take their job seriously and expose d ills their polilical jobbers are doing to d country.

Enenche Akogwu. James Bagauda Kaltho.

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Abu Mikey: .

BUSTED!!!

Eyah...wat a pity...I jst hope it gets into the guiness book of record as d first person to record his death#eatin my bread and beans#

RIP to the over zealous freelance photographer

they pushed Mubarak out. see what they now face daily.

Hmmm

Reporter: Neduzze5, what do you have to say about this topic??

Me: Your papa there! I resemble Egyptian for ya eye?? Park one side oh!

No comments jare.

I no be Egyptian!

Hope Bill Gate buys the Photo !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mo4SNhNepi8

The last image Ahmad captured was the face and rifle of his killer.

NOW, WHAT HAS THE GUY ACHIEVED? IS IT SURPRISING THAT A SOLDIER SHOT HIM? SOLDIERS SHOOT PEOPLE, NOT RABBITS.

No comment!

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ISLAMIC RELIGION NA THE RELIGION OF PEACE.

Infact, na christians cause the problem wey we read for this story so.

Lobatan, abi?

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D sniper thought d camera was a gun

RIP

The Sniper probably thought the Camera was a gun. So, he offed him before the victim put a button hole to his forehead. It was a war zone. No rules. Later he'll realise he made a mistake. War ain't fair

Eya, so sad

RIP dude.

that's definitely not a sniper.....and that rifle looks like an AK 47.

Adex097:

BUSTED!!!

I hate You!!!

ninja4life: thanks 4 d correction.po

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[quote author=ninja4life]Rip man,well i dont think any nigerian reporter is ready to go to such length b4 making their reports.most of them na copy and paste they specializes in.i hope dey take their job seriously and expose d ills their polilical jobbers are doing to d country.
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lol

Shey the camera man die?

ninja4life: Rip man,well i dont think any nigerian reporter is ready to go to such length b4 making their reports.most of them na copy and paste they specializes in.i hope dey take their job seriously and expose d ills their polilical jobbers are doing to d country.
Wow today is my lucky day on nairaland,my post made nairaland frontpage now i'm d first 2 comment.dancing alingo oga seun what is my prize.lol

ChannelsTV reporter was a kinda hero in Kano state barely two years ago. May his soul RIP. He was covering an exchange of fire between the BH boys and the NPF at the NPF divisional headqtr Farm Centre, Along Zaria road. Kano state. When he was also fired.