Chris Hondros of the Getty Images photo agency died within a few hours of the devastating brain injury. According a third author, Guy Martin, wound, suffered a heavy basin to André Liohn, a colleague, who was the triage center where the photographer of rebels crashed were after they were taken.
Mr. Hondros suffered an extensive loss of brain tissue and has been revived twice. He spent several hours in a coma and died after 10 am, said Mr Liohn.
Mr Martin, a British citizen, was vascular surgery on Wednesday night, according to the same account. As the night progressed, Mr Liohn said that Mr Martin bleeding had been stopped and that his prospects had improved.
The fourth author, Michael Christopher Brown, suffered shrapnel wounds to his left shoulder, but his life was not in danger. He was resting Wednesday night.
Misurata, Libya's third-largest city, has cut off was by land from the rest of the country by armed forces loyal to Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi. It was the scene of intense, close combat for weeks to fight. Hundreds of Libyans killed have been confirmed.
Two other journalists of the Committee to protect journalists were killed last month in the Libyan conflict according to: Mohammed al-Nabbous, the founder of the online Libya Alhurra TV, who was shot dead, reports streaming was audio as the fighting in Benghazi, the rebel capital. and Ali Hassan al-Jaber, a cameraman with Al Jazeera, when his crew was in the vicinity of Benghazi in an ambush, was shot.
The photographers killed and wounded Wednesday reached the city by the sea of the Benghazi. The early reports said that she had worked in the vicinity of the front lines when they were hit by a rocket propelled grenade. Mr Liohn said that they were the rebels Tripoli Street, one of the most important battlefields of the city covers. It was not immediately clear how Mr Martin and Mr Brown could be evacuated.
The Ionian spirit, a ship chartered by the International Organization for migration, migrant workers, was in the port of Misurata that just have completed a third relief trip Benghazi evacuate.
Human rights watch, a New York know organization whose staff, photographers, contacted the ship and found that he was ready to evacuate the two wounded photographers back to Benghazi. But Mr Martin was not as fit for travel, especially on a journey, the 20 or more hours could take.
Late in the night were measures Mr Hetherington is, remains in the ship for the trip to Benghazi, to transfer air home.
The prospects for moving from Mr. Hondros remains were not sure how he died later in the night. Human rights Watch said that it asked to accept the Ionian mind Commander Mr Hondros remains.
The death of Mr Hetherington resounded in many quarters, including among the journalists, aid workers, soldiers and victims of war, which he friends was in a career. A British citizen who lived in New York, he had conflicts with sensitivity in Liberia, Afghanistan, Darfur, and in the Libya last week, covered.
"This a devastating loss for many of us personally," said Kenneth Roth, the Executive Director of human rights watch. "But it's a devastating loss for the human rights community." His work has the visibility of many of the world thrown forgotten conflicts. "The legacy of his extraordinary photographs can serve, inspire future generations."
His family has in a short statement: "Tim continued its ongoing multimedia project in Libya to humanitarian issues during the time of the war and the conflict highlight." "He will be missed forever."
As ended the vigil for Mr Hondros his friends expressed, pain, grief and respect for him and his body of work, over a career of two decades. Tyler Hicks, a photographer for the New York Times, worked together with Mr Hondros in several wars, acknowledged in an E-mail.
He wrote "Chris victims brought in his own life to bring created the hardships of war in the eyes of the public and the dedication of the award-winning photographs, shaped that way, people viewed the world,". "He was a close friend for almost 20 years." The tragedy of his death had brought so many memories to the surface, and I am grateful, among the many people who had the good fortune, it know. "He will be missing us."
Mr Martin Panos Pictures, a photo agency in London, had sent his work, said Josh Lustig, editor, but no clients had been formally lined up.
"We all pray are that he pulls through," said Mr Lustig
The Libyan conflict proved deeply perilous for journalists, local and foreign. In addition to the four have been killed, the Committee has counted 49 arrests on the protection of journalists. Among them are Clare Morgana Gillis, an American freelancer for TheAtlantic.com and United States today; James Wright Foley, an American writer for global services; Manuel Varela de Seijas Brabo, a Spanish photographer. and Anton Lazarus Hammerl, a South African photographer. At least six local journalists missing amid speculation they are in the care of the security forces.
An international journalist and two media workers support are also unclear. Mr Hetherington, 41, was between assignments in Vanity Fair when he was killed. York travelled tried to Libya on his own work on a multimedia project while he and his editors in new he had to find out what would be his next series of photos for the magazine.
Graydon Carter, Vanity Fair Editor, said the sudden death of the staff stunned had left. "A further two or three days and he probably the assignment would have had," said Mr.. Carter. "We are just devastated." "He lived but."
"It is what gave him life," he said, "and it is what it took him."
Mr Hetherington contacted his editors, most recently on Tuesday by E-mail. "Am currently in Misratah - would have interesting products by SJ," he wrote. SJ in accordance with his friend and fellow Vanity Fair contributor Sebastian Junger. The two had the Afghan war for the magazine chronicled and a company of American soldiers from May 2007 to July 2008 in the Korangal Valley, one partners on "Restrepo" particularly dangerous part in northeastern of Afghanistan were followed.
Mr Hetherington had rarely booked on Twitter this year, but on Tuesday, he sent them from his iPhone: "in the beleaguered Libyan city of Misurata." Indiscriminate bombing by Qadhafi forces. "No sign of NATO."
Mr Martin was working on his own when he was wounded, and he was the agency communication with prior to the attack, said they knew little about his well-being. Mr Martin pictures had sent to Panos pictures on Wednesday, said Mr Lustig, editor.
"He is a young and ambitious photographers with plenty of talent," said Mr Lustig. "He pushes ever to get the best images from the most difficult circumstances." We are all praying that he pulls through.
Jeremy W. Peters contributed reporting from New York.
Tim Hetherington, is left in a building by a rebel helped in Misurata, 
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