Chaos erupts in African parliament after ‘I’ll kill you’ threat

(Danny Lawson/PA)

Mayhem has erupted at a meeting of the African Union’s parliament as legislators scuffled over a ballot box and a man appeared to aim a head-high kick at a female colleague amid shouts that there were people armed with guns in the room.

Numerous scuffles broke out on the floor of the meeting in Midrand, South Africa, as a disagreement over the process to elect a new president for the AU’s legislative body boiled over.