Pulitzer Prize-winning news photographer Danish Siddiqui was buried in India's capital on Sunday, two days after he was killed covering fighting between Afghan security forces and the Taliban near a border crossing with Pakistan.

Siddiqui, an Indian national with the Reuters news agency, was embedded with Afghan special forces in the former Taliban bastion of Kandahar when he died, the news agency said Friday.

Hundreds of people joined in final prayers for slain Pulitzer-prize winning photographer Danish Siddiqui at his alma mater, Jamia Millia Islamia university, in Delhi
Hundreds of people joined in final prayers for slain Pulitzer-prize winning photographer Danish Siddiqui at his alma mater, Jamia Millia Islamia university, in Delhi AFP / Money SHARMA

The 38-year-old's body arrived in New Delhi on a flight from Afghanistan late Sunday and his coffin was taken to his home where hundreds of friends and news media colleagues had gathered outside.

An estimated 500 people later took part in final prayers for Siddiqui at his alma mater, Jamia Millia Islamia university, in Delhi, according to an AFP photographer at the campus.

Reporters pay homage to the late Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui at the Gauhati press club in Guwahati, India
Reporters pay homage to the late Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui at the Gauhati press club in Guwahati, India AFP / Biju BORO

He was then buried in the graveyard on the university campus.

Tributes had poured in for Siddiqui in India after reports of his death.

Residents and students attend a vigil at the gates of the Jamia Millia Islamia University in New Delhi to pay homage to Pulitzer Prize-winning Indian photographer Danish Siddiqui.
New details about Danish Siddiqui's death have been revealed in a recent report. AFPTV / Aarju AALAM

Candlelight vigils were held by journalists in several Indian cities on Saturday.

Siddiqui was part of a team that shared the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Photography for documenting the Rohingya refugee crisis.

He had also covered the war in Iraq, the Hong Kong protests and Nepal earthquakes since he started working for Reuters in 2010, the agency said.

Several journalists, including women, have been killed in targeted attacks since the Taliban and Washington signed a deal in February 2020 that paved the way for the withdrawal of foreign forces.