“I shot a skirmish between protesters and the police. Demonstrators with covered faces pushed law enforcement officers and then hit my cell as well as my face, ”said the producer.
According to him, a group of three or four people began to strike him and kick the camera lying on the ground.
Ruptly employee managed to get to the police car in which he was taken from the scene.
On June 4, in Yemen, unidentified men shot and killed a Ruptly stringer, Nabil Hassan al-Qaiti, near his home in Aden.
Stringer periodically filmed Ruptly stories and worked with other agencies. He left three children and a pregnant wife.