French photographer wounded in Syria dead: foreign ministry

PARIS - Agence France-Presse

An undated picture released by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) shows French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin. Voisin, who was seriously wounded on February 21, 2013 in Idlib in northern Syria, was transferred to a hospital in Antakya. AFP PHOTO/HO

French freelance photographer Olivier Voisin, who was seriously wounded in Syria last month, has died of his wounds after surgery in Turkey, the foreign ministry said on Sunday.

"We confirm his death," a spokeswoman said of Voisin, who suffered head and arm injuries from shrapnel when a shell exploded near Idlib in northern Syria.