Dave Clark and Roberto Schmidt disappared

AFP announced that it had not heard from two of its journalists, Dave Clark, 38, and Roberto Schmidt, 45, since the evening of Friday 18 March, when they were near the eastern city of Tobruk. In a statement, AFP reported that they had “said in an email on Friday evening that they intended to travel some 30 km from Tobruk on Saturday morning to meet opponents of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi’s regime and interview refugees fleeing the fighting.” They were travelling with photographer Joe Raedle from the Getty Images agency.