Kobe Bryant death: BBC apologises for TV news footage mistake
when his private helicopter crashed in southern California on Sunday morning.
At the end of the bulletin, newsreader Reeta Chakrabarti apologised for the earlier on-screen error saying:"In our coverage of the death of Kobe Bryant, in one section of the report, we mistakenly showed pictures of another basketball player, LeBron James.Within 15 minutes, Paul Royall, editor of BBC News at Six and Ten, posted an apology on Twitter, saying the programme"mistakenly used pictures of LeBron James in one section of the report".
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