TV reporter and crew mugged during live broadcast in Johannesburg

Armed men have been caught on camera mugging a journalist as he was about to give a live TV report in South Africa. Vuyo Mvoko was seconds away from going on air outside Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg on Tuesday night. Two men, one apparently armed with a gun, accosted the reporter as he was about to give an update on Zambian President Edgar Lungu’s condition. A scuffle follows and Mvoko is heard saying: “Hey, we’re being mugged!”

He was looking for the phone. And when I wasn’t giving him the phone, he calls the other one who has a gun, to say ‘shoot this dog’ or something like that. So I gave him the phone.

Vuyo Mvoko, SABC journalist

The robbers took two mobile phones and a laptop computer from the TV crew. The South African National Editors’ Forum appealed to anyone who recognised the men to contact police, saying the incident brought home “the level of criminality in our society”. President Lungu, 58, was undergoing medical tests at the hospital after he fell ill at the weekend.

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