Former Tasmanian senator Jacqui Lambie and a Special Broadcasting Service film crew were forced to take cover while filming in war-torn Syria after gunfire from suspected IS insurgents broke out nearby.
Ms Lambie is participating in the SBS TV show Go Back To Where You Came From Live, which begins on tonight, alongside Sydney immigration lawyer Marina, when the attack occurred on Saturday.
It is understood the pair had been filming at a Syrian police compound when the area was fired on by multiple gunmen, reported by local police to be IS fighters.
Footage released on Tuesday shows members of the Go Back To Where You Came From Live crew running up a flight of stairs, shouting for the group to take cover.
“Gunshots, people running, trying to get to higher ground,” Marina, 28, says during the footage, describing the scenes outside.
“And I thought about my family and my partner – and how it would be for me to lose them or them to lose me.”
