News crew held up by armed robbers live on air

You really couldn’t make this up.

Two television crews reporting on a deadly shooting in San Francisco have been robbed at gunpoint close to where the original incident happened.

Viewers got a first-hand glimpse of the drama when a camera man was seen running across the screen of rival news organisation KTVU Fox 2.

Cara Liu, who works for the station, was then seen running away after telling the anchor there was an ‘incident’.

It later emerged her crew had been robbed at gunpoint, along with another one.

A cameraman was pistol-whipped during the incident near the city’s waterfront, and suffered minor injuries.

The robber drove away in a black BMW with two cameras and two tripods from stations KTVU and KNTV.

Television and newspaper crews have been robbed in the San Francisco Bay Area several times in recent years and many of them now travel with armed guards when reporting in high-crime areas.

A 31-year-old woman was murdered at Pier 14 along the Embarcadero on Wednesday.