Global Voices

Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Egypt: “I Literally Felt a Bullet Pass Over my Shoulder”

Egyptian photojournalist Mosa'ab Elshamy was shot at, had a bullet fly over his shoulder, and had his equipment stolen as he ventured into Rabaa Al Adawiya, where a pro-Morsi sit-in was violently dispersed in Cairo, Egypt, today.


He tweets his experience in a series of tweets, which give us a sneak preview of what it was like at the evacuation of the Muslim Brotherhood sit-in in Nasr City this morning.


Getting to the Rabaa sit-in was the easy part:



There, he first dealt with teargas:



The horror he saw, he captured in a gallery of photographs, he shares on flickr. [Warning: Some pictures, particularly of the corpses in the morgue, are graphic]



ElShamy has a close brush with snipers:



But he remains put, clicking away, as the clashes intensify:



A bullet flies over his shoulder. He tweets:



With that, and the pellets of shotgun in his back, Elshamy decides to call it a day:



But that was not the end of it.



Don't miss out ElShamy's photographs from today's clashes on his flickr account here.







via Global Voices » Feature http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/08/14/egypt-i-literally-felt-a-bullet-pass-over-my-shoulder/

Labels: ,

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home