Tiananmen Square Tank Man photographer Charlie Cole dies (BBC)

Charlie Cole, one of the photographers who captured the famous Tank Man on film during the Tiananmen Square protests, has died.

The image of one man standing in the way of a column of tanks, a day after hundreds possibly thousands of people died, has become a defining image of the 1989 pro-democracy protests.

Cole won the 1990 World Press Photo award for his picture.

He had been living in Bali, Indonesia, where he died last week, aged 64. Read more

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