The bureau chief for Reuters in Pakistan Maria Golovnina, a Russian national, was on Monday found dead at her office-cum-residence here. 34-year-old Golovnina, who was also looking after Afghanistan, passed out at her office and was rushed to the hospital where doctors were unable to save her, Reuters said in a statement.
The cause of death is being investigated. “Maria was a superb journalist with a long and varied career at Reuters,” the statement said.She joined the company in 2001 as a foreign correspondent in a number of places, including london, Singapore, Moscow, Afghanistan and Iraq. She had been bureau chief for Afghanistan and Pakistan since 2013.