CBS affiliates around Connecticut and the country received this bulletin Tuesday afternoon:
CBS News Statement
On Friday February 11, the day Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak stepped down, CBS Correspondent Lara Logan was covering the jubilation in Tahrir Square for a 60 MINUTES story when she and her team and their security were surrounded by a dangerous element amidst the celebration. It was a mob of more than 200 people whipped into a frenzy.
In the crush of the mob, she was separated from her crew. She was surrounded and suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.
There will be no further comment from CBS News and Correspondent Logan and her family respectfully request privacy at this time.
Logan is pictured below, moments before she was attacked.
Shocking news……..
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CBS Correspondent Lara Logan had the wrong security team? Something is amiss in this report, savage and disgusting, but where is CBS in their security ops, where was the avenue of exit and where was the body guard detail? It’s 60 MINUTES for god sake.
Anyone else think it’s a little surprising how forthcoming CBS was with the details?