'It was probably one of the scariest moments I have ever endured,' NYT photographer says of Barda bombing

New York Times photographer Ivor Prickett shared on Instagram a photo of a woman crying over the body of her brother Fuad Ismayilov who was killed in 2020 as a result of the Armenian missile attack on civilians in the Barda district of Azerbaijan.

According to Report, Prickett said that he remembers that day in Barda as probably one of the scariest moments he had ever endured.

He said that after the photo was published he received threats.

"The campaign went as far as to try and smear my name at The New York Times..." he said.

"It was probably one of the scariest moments I have ever endured, partly because we had virtually no cover," Pricket said of the Barda bombing.

"I am not a religious man but I remember very clearly praying to an unknown god that day," he said.

"We somehow survived the hailstorm of bomblets and immediately got to work documenting the aftermath. In the end it was the single most deadly loss of civilian life during the 2020 war, which ended some few weeks later," he noted.

Armenian missile attacks on the densely populated areas of Azerbaijan's Barda district with the use of prohibited weapons in October, 2020 killed 25 civilians and injured more than 80.