A pair of Fox News correspondents were severely beaten and hospitalized in Egypt on Wednesday as attacks on journalists there continue to escalate.
Correspondent Greg Palkot (pictured late last week) and his cameraman, Olaf Wiig, were attacked, Fox News reported on Thursday.
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Palkot and Wiig were above Tahrir Square when the attack happened, Fox News' John Roberts said on the air Thursday afternoon.
"They were forced to leave their position when a Molotov cocktail was thrown at it," Roberts said. "A large fire erupted. They were forced to flee. They ran out and ran right into the pro Mubarak crowd and were severely beaten and had to be taken to the hospital, spent the night in the hospital. The extent of their injuries was fairly grave, however, they have been released from the hospital."
Fox News did not report the news Wednesday out of safety concerns for the injured reporters, the network said. But the incident appears to be the most serious attack on the media in Cairo so far.
Meanwhile, a day after many journalists, including CNN's Anderson Cooper, were attacked or intimidated by pro-government supporters in Egypt, reports of more journalists arrested or detained -- by either police or the Egyptian military -- in Cairo are flooding in.
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"There is a concerted campaign to intimidate international journalists in Cairo and interfere with their reporting," U.S. State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley said in a statement via Twitter. "We condemn such actions."
The campaign was enough to force CBS and NBC to pull its star news anchors -- Katie Couric and Brian Williams -- out of Cairo. The New York Times reports that Couric landed in New York shortly after 5:00 p.m. (ET) and anchored the "CBS Evening News" from Manhattan. Williams anchored "Nightly News" from Amman, Jordan.
It's not entirely clear why the journalists are being detained, but several who have been released say they were told it was for "their own protection," perhaps to protect them from pro-government mobs -- like the one that attacked Cooper. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, there are dozens of reports of journalists being detained.
Below are some of those reports. Refresh for updates throughout the day.
>> CBS News chief foreign affairs correspondent Lara Logan was reportedly marched back to her hotel at gunpoint when she and a crew were taking pictures of protests. [ABC News]
>> Time reports that Logan and her crew have been detained by Egyptian police outside Cairo's Israeli embassy. "This detention comes only a day after Logan herself reported on the intensified efforts of the Mubarak regime to clamp down on foreign journalists covering the ongoing protests." A spokesperson for CBS told Time that "for security reasons CBS will not be commenting on, or revealing in any way, CBS personnel activity, movement or location."
