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An Ecuadorian TV reporter and his camera crew
got the scares of their lives after being held at gunpoint by a
masked robber, while doing a live piece.
On February 12, Diego Ordinola, a journalist for Ecuador’s
DirecTV Sports, was reporting from outside the Isidro Romero
Carbo Monumental Stadium, the home of the Barcelona SC soccer
club, when a man wearing a baseball cap and face mask approached
him and pulled out a gun. The masked assailant can be heard
asking for the crew’s telephones, and as soon as one of them
hands over their smartphone, he runs off, leaving the team in
shock.
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“We can’t even work quietly. This happened at 1pm today outside the
Estadio Monumental,” Diego Ordinola captioned a video of the incident on
Twitter.
After the robber makes off with the stolen telephone, the camera man
starts following him, and later films the man making his getaway on the
back of a motorcycle. The video has already been viewed hundreds of
thousands of times on Twitter alone, and have since spread on other
social networks.
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Ordinola later took to Twitter again to thank people for their messages
of support, adding that police have vowed to catch the robber and bring
him to justice.
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