Tributes pour in for journalist and atheist Hitchens

TRIBUTES poured in yesterday for journalist and atheist intellectual Christopher Hitchens, who died aged 62.

Hitchens, who was British, made the US his home and backed the 2003 US invasion of Iraq. He died in Houston of pneumonia, a complication of cancer of the oesophagus, Vanity Fair magazine said.

“Christopher Hitchens — the incomparable critic, masterful rhetorician, fiery wit, and fearless bon vivant — died at the age of 62,” the magazine said.