Lara Logan separated from her security team on Friday …
CBS reporter Lara Logan is recovering today in a United States hospital after suffering a savage beating and sexual assault in Egypt while covering a story for 60 Minutes.
The 39-year-old Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent for CBS News got separated from her security team during a mob scene of more than 200 people in Tahrir Square on Friday — just moments after Hosni Mubarak officially stepped down.
Her network issued this statement: “Logan suffered a brutal and sustained sexual assault and beating before being saved by a group of women and an estimated 20 Egyptian soldiers. She reconnected with the CBS team, returned to her hotel and returned to the United States on the first flight the next morning. She is currently in the hospital recovering.”
Logan met her current husband in Iraq — a U.S. federal government defense contractor from Texas. The couple have a one-year-old son and she has a child from a previous relationship.
UPDATE: Logan was released from the hospital Tuesday at 5 p.m., and is resting at her Washington D.C. home with her husband and two children.
More photos, including one taken moments before she was seized, and video below:
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