A security guard who forcibly removed a female reporter from the scene of a fire on Tuesday has been fired and his former employer has apologized and compensated the woman over the incident.

Beijing Times reporter Shi Ce had been at the scene of a storehouse blaze near the Olympic Sports Center on Tuesday when employees from Xinao Property Management Company, which looks after the premises, arrived to stop her and her colleague covering the story.

Shi was dragged outside the gate to the site, Beijing Times reported on March 24.