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The moment a BBC reporter was attacked by an angry man live on air during a brutal scene in which a Chinese car crashed into a rowing couple, killing 35 people.
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The moment a BBC reporter was attacked by an angry man live on air during a brutal scene in which a Chinese car crashed into a rowing couple, killing 35 people.

This is the shocking moment a BBC reporter was pushed and cornered by an angry man while filming at the scene of a horrific car attack in China that left scores dead earlier today.

At least 35 people were killed and dozens injured when a driver allegedly unhappy with the divorce agreement plowed into a crowd in Zhuhai, police said.

While covering the attack, BBC China correspondent Stephen McDonell was ordered to stop filming by an unidentified angry man.

A clip of the incident shows the moment the man in the blue T-shirt walked up to the reporter and stood in front of the camera as he demanded McDonell ‘stop filming’.

McDonell at first appears to ignore the angry man and continues reporting, but the man suddenly pushes him and pushes the camera away before covering the lens with his hands.

The moment a BBC reporter was attacked by an angry man live on air during a brutal scene in which a Chinese car crashed into a rowing couple, killing 35 people.

BBC reporter Stepen McDonell was pushed and cornered by an angry man while filming at the scene of a horrific car attack.

In the footage, the Chinese man walks up to the reporter, stands in front of the camera and asks McDonell.

The footage shows the moment the Chinese man walks up to the reporter and stands in front of the camera, asking McDonell to “stop filming.”

The moment the man pushed the BBC reporter and the camera, then covered the lens with his hands was also recorded on video.

The moment the man pushed the BBC reporter and the camera, then covered the lens with his hands was also recorded on video.

“Stop filming,” the man tells the BBC crew as he shoves McDonnell.

The journalist responded by saying in Chinese: ‘Don’t…catch me.’

McDonell continues to tell him, “Don’t do this and I’ll call the police.” ‘Who are you? “You have no right to disturb us,” he said.

The man replies, ‘I am a Chinese citizen, you are shooting in China.’

The situation seems to get worse when the man pushes the camera again. “Don’t touch that, don’t do that, don’t do that,” says the BBC reporter, and the stunned onlookers begin to move away from the crowd. around the couple.

Although the man’s motives are unknown, according to the BBC, local Communist Party officials are organizing cadres to pretend to be angry with local residents to prevent foreign journalists from reporting.

The incident comes just after shocking footage emerged of the horrific car attack showing people lying on the ground after being hit while exercising outside a sports centre.

Police arrested a 62-year-old suspect, surnamed Fran, as he tried to flee the scene, but it is reported that he is currently in a coma due to his injuries.

'Who are you? The reporter said to the angry man,

‘Who are you? The reporter says to the angry man, “You have no right to divide us.”

It is said that the man, who was enraged by the outcome of the property deal following his divorce, committed this cruelty.

Video footage posted on social media showed dozens of people lying motionless on the ground outside the running track at the Zhuhai sports centre, which was built for the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and has since been used by local groups.

Many of those injured were wearing clothing designed for exercise and were joined by other members of the public.

Eyewitnesses told local media that the injured included ‘a group of middle-aged and elderly people exercising on the track’ and were later surrounded by investigating police.

“A passenger car hit a number of pedestrians at the sports center in Xiangzhou District, Zhuhai City, and drove away,” police said in a statement.

Witness Mr Chen, who was part of the marching group that gathered at the stadium for a regular march on a nearby road, told Chinese news magazine Caixin that a car suddenly charged towards his group at high speed, ‘knocking out many people’.

“It went in a loop and people were injured all over the running track, east, south, west and north,” a second eyewitness told Caixin.

A man at the emergency clinic of Shang Chong Hospital in Zhuhai said they admitted some minor injuries and most left after treatment.

Chinese police announced that 35 people died and 43 people were injured when a driver crashed his car into a crowd in China.

Police arrested a 62-year-old man surnamed Fan in connection with a ramming attack on a sports center in Zhuhai in south-east China's Guangdong province on Monday night (image: car used in the incident)

Police arrested a 62-year-old man surnamed Fan in connection with a ramming attack on a sports center in Zhuhai in southeast China’s Guangdong province on Monday night (image: car used in the incident)

Video footage posted on social media showed dozens of people lying motionless on the ground outside a running track at the Zhuhai sports center in Guangdong province.

Video footage posted on social media showed dozens of people lying motionless on the ground outside a running track at the Zhuhai sports center in Guangdong province.

Zhuhai People’s Hospital said it had received injured people, but did not provide detailed information about the death toll. Calls to Xiangzhou District People’s Hospital and Zhuhai Third People’s Hospital went unanswered.

According to Chinese media reports, many elderly, young people and children were injured in the crash attack.

The videos showed a firefighter performing CPR on a person while people were told to leave the scene. These were shared on X by news blogger and dissident Li Ying, better known as Teacher Li.

His account publishes daily news based on user posts. In the videos, dozens of people were lying face down on the running track in the sports center. In one, a woman says ‘my leg is broken’.

As of Tuesday morning, with the opening of the annual Zhuhai Airshow on Tuesday, searches on Chinese social media about the event were heavily censored on Chinese social media platforms.