R.I.P.: Former NBC News Correspondent Ned Colt

Ned Colt

Ned Colt, who reported from Asia and around the world for NBC News before joining two humanitarian agencies, has died in Boston after suffering a massive stroke.

He was 56, according to NB C News.

Colt had spent the past few years working for the International Rescue Committee and the United Nations office dedicated to refugees.

Colt joined NBC News in 1996 in its London bureau, then moved to Asia in 1997, working from Beijing and Hong Kong. He was instrumental in the network's coverage of the Iraq war, and was kidnapped and held several days during his work on the story.