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Muscat: The ninth leg of 2008 Beijing Olympic torch relay in Muscat witnessed a small friction between camera persons while they vied for space in a van.
Two open vans carrying photo journalists drove in front of the torch bearers. At the Corniche break point, camera persons who failed to find a place in the vans at the start, began to jostle for space in one of the vans, triggering angry exchanges.
Some of the visiting Chinese television crew and photographers demanded space and that started off an argument with local photographers.
The police had to be summoned to sooth fraying tempers and some of the local photographers were ordered to get off, so that visiting journalists could be given room.
“It is unfair, we also need to our job,” Omani photographer Shakeel Al Balushi, who works for a weekly magazine Y, told Gulf News. However, Shakeel and other local photographers took the decision in their stride and left the van.
“I have never seen so many camera crew - television as well as newspaper photographers, for a single event in Oman before,” said an expatriate photographer, who has been working in Oman for almost two decades.
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