When a news broadcast suddenly turned into a NIGHTMARE #morbidfacts

Morbid Facts, Part 759. This was the moment when a typical news broadcast turned into an outright nightmare for CBS reporter Lara Logan. On the night of February 11, 2011, as Egypt erupted in celebration over the resignation of their president, Lara Logan was in Cairo documenting the historic moment with her CBS crew for more than an hour, until their camera battery suddenly died and they stopped to

regroup. Her local translator then heard the crowd say things like, let's take her pants off, and a night of celebration quickly turned into pure terror for the journalist. Suddenly separated from her bodyguards and translators, Logan was swallowed by a crowd of 200-300 men who suddenly turned on her in a violent sexual assault. Her clothes were torn, she was dragged, beaten, and by her account, raped with their hands

while others filmed on cell phones. She struggled to breathe as her rib cage was compressed and her limbs went numb, convinced she was going to die. After about 30 minutes, a group of Egyptian women and two dozen soldiers forced their way into the mob and carried her away. Logan was hospitalized, flown home the next day, and later went public to break her away. Logan was hospitalized, flown home the next day, and later went public to break the silence about mass sexual assaults in protest crowds and the risks constantly faced by women in volatile environments of men.