
<p>Portuguese photographer Antonio Simoes was in South Africa to shoot the World Cup when he was robbed at gunpoint in his hotel room yesterday morning.</p><p>Two men entered his room at the Nutbush Boma Lodge at about 4am, pointed a gun at his head, and stole roughly $35,000 worth of camera equipment. Two other journalists staying in the hotel were also robbed that same morning.</p><p>Simoes, who works for Portuguese sports newspaper O Jogo, tells the Associated Press:</p><p>One of the guys pointed a hand gun at my head, and then they took all my gear cameras, lenses, laptop. Then they told me to lie on the bed and they covered me with a blanket, pressed the gun against my head and told me to sleep.</p><p><a href="http://petapixel.com/2010/06/10/world-cup-photog-robbed-at-gunpoint-in-south-africa/">Keep reading...</a></p>