It’s just the kind of dramatic warzone moment U.S. reporters dream of:
Miss Urushadze, who reports for Georgia’s equivalent of the BBC, was talking live to a TV camera about humanitarian aid arriving in Gori yesterday afternoon when the sniper struck.
In the footage, she gasps as the first bullet grazes her left arm, and instinctively jumps sideways as four more whizz past.
In shock, she slumps to the ground as the cameraman rushes to her side.
A still of Tamara Urushadze reporting live on Georgian TV shortly before she was shot by a sniper in Gori
A studio presenter’s voice is heard saying: ‘You can see that something has happened during live coverage. Unfortunately we don’t know what.’
Then Miss Urushadze is on air again, sitting in a van a few yards away and showing the camera her grazed arm.
She tells viewers: ‘I have been hit by a bullet. You can see I am scratched here. Most likely it was a sniper.
‘It has most likely been a light weapon as it’s a minor wound. There is no one to be seen here and I have no idea who shot me.’
She was later taken to hospital.
I’d says she’s pretty hardcore even if it was just a scratch.
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August 15th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
John Kerry would call it a “Purple Heart”!