Some Staff of Media Trust Group on Wednesday narrowly escaped being killed by thugs at the Kano Eid ground, Kofar Mata.
The incident happened when the team comprising reporters and shoot edits were covering a protest by traders against the Government’s decision to demolish their temporary shops.
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“I observed that things went sideways when the team was about to leave the scene, then one of them came running asking his other colleagues to run for their safety.
“I was just asking for Khalid’s whereabouts when I heard him shouting Abdul run and there he was, running past us.
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“The moment we realised that it was thugs carrying weapons chasing Khalid, we all started running along and Abdul, who was holding a camera, was hit by a moving vehicle. When he fell down, he was surrounded by the thugs.
“One of them took out a sharp knife and attempted to stab Abdul when a good Samaritan that was known by the thugs intervened and saved him and his camera as Khalid was nowhere to be found,” this reporter who was a witness and target at the scene reports.
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On his part, the Trust TV Correspondent, Idris Jibril said, “I was shocked at the incident and honestly I thought I lost my cameraman when I saw thugs attempting to stab him with a knife.
“I have to quickly also dismantle my microphone and put it inside my pocket to evade attention.”
