Top CBS journalist Lara Logan has spoken for the first time about being attacked in Cairo more than two months ago, saying a mob of more than 200 men "raped me with their hands".

Logan, 40, was covering the downfall of the Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak's regime on February 11 when a section of the crowd in Tahrir Square turned on her and her colleagues.

What really struck me was how merciless they were. They really enjoyed my pain and suffering. It incited them to more violence.

Photo: Before the attack ... Lara Logan in Tahrir Square. (Reuters)