Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille dead at 58

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REST IN PEACE: Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille died in Thursday.

Michel du Cille, a Washington Post photojournalist who was a three-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize for his dramatic images of human struggle and triumph, and who recently chronicled the plight of Ebola patients and the people who cared for them, died Thursday while on assignment for The Post in Liberia. He was 58.

He collapsed while returning on foot from a village in the Salala district of Liberia's Bong County, where he had been working on a project. He was transported over dirt roads to a hospital two hours away but was declared dead on arrival of an apparent heart attack.

Du Cille won two Pulitzer Prizes for photography with the Miami Herald in the 1980s and joined The Post in 1988. In 2008, he shared his third Pulitzer, with Post reporters Dana Priest and Anne Hull, for their investigative series on the treatment of veterans at Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

Michel du Cille/Washington Post

Michel du Cille took this photo of Esther Tokpah in September in Monrovia, Liberia. The 11-year-old had lost both her parents to Ebola.

FROM THE ARCHIVES: Documenting with dignity in the Ebola zone, by Michel du Cille

"Michel had returned to Liberia on Tuesday after a four-week break that included showing his photographs at the Addis Foto Fest in Ethiopia," Washington Post Executive Editor Martin Baron said in a statement to the newspaper's staff.

"We are all heartbroken. We have lost a beloved colleague and one of the world's most accomplished photographers," he said.

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Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Michel du Cille dead at 58