Hamid was responding to a question from SBS presenter Lee Lin Chin about Libya's historic elections and describing how polling in the east had been disrupted when gunshots sounded in the background.
Trying to take cover, she said: “There is firing, we have to go.”
The correspondent was not injured, but an attack on a polling station in the Libyan city of Ajdabiya left one person dead.
Voters flocked to cast their ballots in Libya's first free national election in decades after the ouster of dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
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