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Indy100 Staff
Jun 15, 2017

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Adam Harvey/Twitter
An Australian journalist covering fighting in the Philippines, where militants reporetedly declared an allegiance to the terror group Isis earlier this year, has been hit in the neck by a stray bullet.
While documenting fighting between militants and the security forces, ABC's Adam Harvey was hit by a bullet he described "felt like a cricket ball," after he bent down to get food and water out of a car.
Hundreds of residents remain trapped in the fighting, after militants who have declared allegiance to Isis, took parts of Marawi on the island of Mindanao, last month.
He was wearing a flak jacket and a helmet in what was considered a safe zone.
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.
Picture: REUTERS/Linus Escuador
He was taken to a medical centre and then for observation at another hospital, where they did X rays and discovered the cause was a bullet.
Luckily it missed everything important and it was just lodged behind my jaw.
Harvey was told to wear a neck brace as a precaution and later tweeted about the injury to tell everyone he is ok:
Thanks everyone - I'm okay. Bullet is still in my neck, but it missed everything important. https://t.co/PBYfdrTTa6— Adam Harvey (@Adam Harvey) 1497504024
Lucky. https://t.co/2ZPYZfidO9— Adam Harvey (@Adam Harvey) 1497506465
A close shave indeed.
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