Īfter snapping the photograph, Ut took Kim Phúc and the other injured children to Barsky Hospital in Saigon, where it was determined that her burns were so severe that she probably would not survive.
It later earned a Pulitzer Prize and was chosen as the World Press Photo of the Year for 1973. A cropped version of the photo-with the press photographers to the right removed-was featured on the front page of The New York Times the next day. The New York Times editors were at first hesitant to consider the photo for publication because of the nudity, but eventually approved it. In an interview many years later, she recalled she was yelling, Nóng quá, nóng quá ("too hot, too hot") in the picture. Images and rescue Īssociated Press photographer Nick Ut's photograph of Kim Phúc running naked amid other fleeing villagers, South Vietnamese soldiers, and press photographers became one of the most haunting images of the Vietnam War.
Kim Phúc received third degree burns after her clothing was burned by the fire. The bombing killed two of Kim Phúc's cousins and two other villagers. The Republic of Vietnam Air Force pilot mistook the group for enemy soldiers and diverted to attack. Kim Phúc joined a group of civilians and South Vietnamese soldiers who were fleeing from the Caodai Temple to the safety of South Vietnamese-held positions. On June 8, 1972, South Vietnamese planes dropped a napalm bomb on Trảng Bàng, which had been attacked and occupied by North Vietnamese forces. Phan Thi Kim Phúc and her family were residents of the village of Trảng Bàng in South Vietnam.
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