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February 22, 2008

Cockroach leads to staff purge at TV channel

By Dominic wireposts

A cockroach crawling across the table during a Turkmenistan newscast has prompted the country’s president to sack 30 staff from the state broadcaster, The Guardian reports.

Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was reportedly outraged because the incident happened after he had ordered a revamp of TV channel.

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