A large brown cockroach in Turkmenistan that appeared live on air has caused 30 staff at the state TV station to lose their jobs.
The cockroach appeared on screen crawling across the desk while the newsreader was reading the 9 o’clock news.
A recording of the bulletin was re-broadcast at 11 pm.
The following morning, President Kurbanguly Berdymukhamedov was not amused, and fired no fewer than 30 workers from the channel. The President was angry because his instructions for the station to be revamped had apparently not been carried out.
