The best journalistic photo for the year 2006

An independent organization World Press Photo published the list of winners of the annual photography contest. The exhibition, which is in 45 countries visited by about two million people submitted pictures in the categories news, sport events, daily life, portraits, arts and entertainment, nature ... In the category News has identified six of the final scenes ... 1 place was taken photograph in which the fire of the city St. Chalz carries the body of a two-year boy from the Fox River A driver (Fox River) in south Elgin (South Elgin), Illinois, July 27, 2006 ... The kid disappeared, and was absent for three hours until the fire did not find him near the boy berega.Spasti failed ...





2nd place took photos showing how hertfordskoy police Sgt Norm Goddard (Norm Godard, right) pursues Jacques Leggett (Jaquan Leggett) near the house in the street Magnolia Street 28 April 2006. Police began chasing Leggett, who was running away from them, in the course of throwing drugs. When he was arrested, when it found 34 grams of cocaine and five packages of marijuana ...



3 place was awarded to the author of photos, which a young man screaming in pain as rescuers try to remove his hand from izkorezhennogo car ... The car fell into a drainage ditch in the city Hyuvitt (Hewitt Texas), Texas during a flash flood, arising from the heavy rains ...



4th place and honorable mention at the photograph of the 9-year-old Huyton Carter stands on the site where the accident killed the day before in his 14-year-old cousin Carter Stevenson. SUV left the road and collided with a tree. The crash also killed 12-year-old Luke Drew, 13-year-old Jackson Fox and Father John Oliver, returning home after the weekend ... was saved only 12-year-old Michael, who was able to dodge the car ...



5th place and honorable mention. The funeral of the murdered an 8-year-old girl Monica Dryushaun (DreShawna Monique) in the Baptist Church (Bethel Baptist Institutional Church) August 5, 2006 in Dzheksonvile in Florida. The girl was killed. Her mother - Monica Chaynnetta Davis (Chinnetta Davis) a long time coming to the tomb daughter when still did it and saw the body, could not help sobbing. Davis was released from prison for one day to attend the funeral of his daughter. The clothes she was forbidden to me, so she remained in a prison uniform and handcuffs ...



And the 6th place and honorable mention awarded to photos in which the city fire brigade and rescue workers are struggling with flame embrace the Holy Trinity Church in Juneau (Juneau), Alaska March 12, 2006. The church was built in 1896 and was the second oldest religious building of the city. Juneau is considered the city-museum of the history of Alaska ...



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