DUBAI: An Australian journalist took to Twitter to assure followers he is fine after being hit by a stray bullet in his neck while covering the Philippine military's assault against militants aligned with Daesh in a southern city.
ABC journalist Adam Harvey shared a photo of the x-ray which shows the bullet lodged behind his jaw.
“Lucky,” he captioned the photo.
“Thanks everyone — I'm okay. Bullet is still in my neck, but it missed everything important.,” he wrote in the caption to another photo.
Lucky. pic.twitter.com/2ZPYZfidO9
— Adam Harvey (@adharves) June 15, 2017
“I felt an almighty stabbing at the side of my neck and I went down on the ground and I thought I'd been hit by a bit of shrapnel,” he said, according to the BBC.
Thanks everyone - I'm okay. Bullet is still in my neck, but it missed everything important. pic.twitter.com/PBYfdrTTa6
— Adam Harvey (@adharves) June 15, 2017
Harvey was hit at the provincial capitol building, where government officials hold briefings on the progress against the militants who've laid siege to Marawi since last month.
— With AP
