Public Broadcaster crew left scrambling for stolen camera while covering trade centre fire
A television crew of the Georgian Public Broadcaster was left without their camera equipment while covering a fire that broke out in Tbilisi on Thursday night. Photo: Iker Merodio on Flickr.
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A Georgian Public Broadcaster news crew was left scrambling for their camera after the equipment got stolen on site of the Lilo City trade centre in Tbilisi on Friday.
As the reporters worked on the ground to cover the severe fire that broke out in the trading area on Thursday night, their camera disappeared from site.
The journalists were left without the principal equipment before police located and arrested a suspect on the trade centre grounds, on.ge news website reported.
The location was a setting of frantic activity over the night as more than 70 firefighters and 14 fire engines gathered to extinguish the fire that erupted suddenly.
A total of 1,000 square metres were affected but no casualties were reported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia.
A warehouse of electrical equipment caught fire in Tbilisi’s Didi Digomi district last night, injuring one.
A passenger car in the parking garage of Tbilisi Mall caught fire today, after which the mall was evacuated.
Over 70 firefighters and 14 firefighting machines gathered to extinguish the fire that suddenly broke out at the Lilo market on Thursday night. Investigation is underway to establish the reasons of the fire.
Police have detained an individual who set fire to nine vending facilities in the city of Batumi in western Georgia in August 2018.