Covering the Beirut blast, bruised and blooded | Malay Mail

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BEIRUT, Aug 8 — Imagine what it’s like to be flung to the floor by a gigantic explosion, dodge a falling wardrobe in your home, be cut in the forehead by flying glass — and then brush off the blood and start filming the news. Reuters senior television producer Ayat Basma provided the world...

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A general view shows the damage along a street, following a blast in Beirut’s port area, Lebanon August 4, 2020. — Reuters pic

“I was lying on the ground, and all I could hear was the sirens of the car alarms,” said Basma, who had taken a day off work on Tuesday. “I thought, I don’t want to die.”Bleeding from a gash in her head, with wet hair and hastily dressed, Basma rushed into the street and began filming with the only camera she had at hand — her smartphone.

“Everything was down, the neighbours were shouting, the kids were crying,” said Basma. “All you could hear was the sound of cars driving on smashed glass.”As journalists, we typically document and observe through a lens or behind a notebook. But this week, our colleagues in the Reuters Beirut bureau, our regional headquarters, were catapulted into the news even as they rushed to cover it. Several spent hours on the streets, while their families at home were injured and in shock.

“I was focused on just one thing: getting my footage out,” said Abi Nader. “It was a form of denial — I didn’t really want to look at my face.” Francis took out her phone to tell colleagues to send a news alert, or a “snap” in Reuters lingo. “I tried sending the message ‘Big Explosion’ and ‘Please Snap,’ but the letters came out jumbled because I was shaking so hard.”

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