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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