Kenya: Ntv Cameraman Shot Covering Prison Break

8 August 2011

An NTV cameraman James Ng'ang'a was shot and injured while covering the escape by about 15 inmates from the Eldoret prison yesterday.

Ng'ang'a had his two fingers shattered by a bullet which went on to completely destroy his camera during the incident near the Deliverance Church where prison warders were arresting some of the escapees. " I had raised my camera to take motions as the escapees were being loaded onto a vehicle and in the process I just heard something pierce through my fingers and hitting the camera only to realise it was a bullet," said Ng'ang'a.

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