This is the shocking moment an angry man pushed and interrupted a BBC reporter while filming the scene of a horrific car attack in China today that left several people dead.
At least 35 people were killed and dozens more injured when a driver who was allegedly unhappy with his divorce settlement plowed into a crowd in Zhuhai, police revealed.
While reporting on the attack, an angry unidentified man ordered the BBC’s China correspondent Stephen McDonell to stop filming.
A clip of the incident shows the moment the man, wearing a blue T-shirt, approaches the journalist and stands in front of the camera while demanding McDonell “stop filming.”
McDonell appears to ignore the angry man at first and continues reporting, but the man suddenly pushes him away and pushes the camera away, before covering the lens with his hands.
BBC reporter Stepen McDonell was pushed and interrupted by an angry man while filming at the scene of a horrific car attack.
The images show the moment when the Chinese man approaches the journalist and stands in front of the camera while demanding that McDonell “stop filming.”
A video also captured the moment in which the man pushes the BBC reporter and moves the camera away, before covering the lens with his hands.
“Stop filming,” the man tells the BBC crew as he pushes McDonnell.
To that, the journalist responds in Chinese saying ‘No… don’t grab me.’
‘Don’t do that, I’ll call the police too,’ McDonell continues to tell him. ‘Who are you? You have no right to interrupt us.’
“I’m a Chinese citizen, you’re filming things in China,” the man responds.
The situation appears to escalate when the man pushes the camera again, to which the BBC reporter says: “Don’t touch it, don’t do that, don’t do that,” before starting to walk away as stunned onlookers gather around. around the couple.
While the man’s motives are unknown, according to the BBC, local Communist Party officials organize cadres to pretend to be outraged locals to prevent foreign journalists from reporting.
The incident occurred moments after shocking images of the horrific car attack began to emerge, showing people lying on the ground after being hit while exercising outside a sports center.
Police arrested a 62-year-old suspect, surnamed Fran, when he tried to flee the scene but he is now reportedly in a coma due to self-inflicted wounds.
‘Who are you? You have no right to interrupt us,’ the journalist tells the irritated man.
He is said to have committed the atrocity after becoming enraged over the outcome of a property settlement following his divorce.
Video footage posted on social media showed dozens of people lying motionless on the ground outside the athletics track at the Zhuhai sports center, which was built in 2008 for the Beijing Olympics and has since been used by local groups. .
Many of the injured were wearing clothing designed for exercise and were cared for by other members of the public.
Witnesses told local media that the injured were made up of ‘a group of middle-aged and elderly people who were exercising on the track’, who were later surrounded by investigating police.
“A passenger vehicle hit several pedestrians at the sports center in Xiangzhou district of Zhuhai city and drove away,” police said in a statement.
Witness Mr Chen, who is part of a group of walkers who gathered at the stadium for their usual walk along a nearby trail, told Chinese news magazine Caixin that a car suddenly charged towards their group at high speed, ” bringing down a lot of people.”
“It spun and people were injured in all areas of the athletics track: east, south, west and north,” a second witness told Caixin.
A man at the emergency clinic at Shang Chong Hospital in Zhuhai said they had received some slightly injured people and most left after treatment.
Chinese police say 35 people were killed and 43 others injured when a driver plowed his car into a crowd in China
Police arrested a 62-year-old man surnamed Fan in connection with the car-ramming attack at the Zhuhai sports center in southeast China’s Guangdong province on Monday night (pictured: the car used in the incident).
A video posted on social media showed dozens of people lying motionless on the ground outside the athletics track at the Zhuhai sports center in Guangdong province.
Zhuhai People’s Hospital said it had received the injured, but did not give a detailed number of victims. Calls to Xiangzhou District People’s Hospital and Zhuhai Third People’s Hospital went unanswered.
Many elderly people, as well as teenagers and children, were injured in the attack, Chinese media report.
The videos showed a firefighter performing CPR on a person, while being asked to leave the scene. They were shared by news blogger and dissident Li Ying, better known on X as Teacher Li.
Their account publishes daily news based on user submissions. In the videos, dozens of people were lying face down on the athletics track of the sports center. In one, a woman says ‘my foot is broken.’
Searches for the incident on Chinese social media were heavily censored on Tuesday morning as the annual Zhuhai Air Show opened on Tuesday.
