GERMANY: SHAKEN GERMAN TOURISTS RETURN FROM OF SHARM EL-SHEIKH WHERE AT LEAST 88 PEOPLE DIED IN TERRORIST BOMB ATTACKS ON THE RED SEA RESORT

Record ID: 647624

  • Title: GERMANY: SHAKEN GERMAN TOURISTS RETURN FROM OF SHARM EL-SHEIKH WHERE AT LEAST 88 PEOPLE DIED IN TERRORIST BOMB ATTACKS ON THE RED SEA RESORT
  • Date: 23rd July 2005
  • Summary: (BN16) MUNICH, GERMANY (JULY 23, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. EXTERIOR OF ARRIVALS HALL 0.07 2. SIGN READING "ARRIVALS C" 0.13 3. CU: ELECTRONIC BOARD READING "SHARM EL SHEIKH" 0.19 4. WIDE OF WAITING REPORTERS 0.25 5. ARRIVALS BOARD 0.30 6. SLV/SV: PEOPLE WAITING FOR LUGGAGE (2 SHOTS) 0.40 7. TOURISTS ENTERING ARRIVALS LOUNGE 0.53 8. (SOUNDBITE) (German) VERENA FOERSTER SAYING: "I'm completely exhausted, my nerves are wrecked. The hotel was damaged, other hotels were left in rubble, the bazaar was in ruins. We did not see any dead because they wouldn't allow us to leave the hotel anymore but it was terrible.Today was a little better, more relaxed. But there was great panic of course." 1.22 9. CAMERA CREWS WAITING 1.26 10. (SOUNDBITE) (German) VERENA FOERSTER SAYING: "I am so glad to be back, but sad at the same time because it really is a great country. Unfortunately we were only able to spend one day of holidays there. We arrived fine, then this happened. But the one day was great." 1.49 11. (SOUNDBITE) (German) PETER HASSLACH SAYING: "We lived about 10 to 15 minutes away from where the explosions happened. We are just happy that we survived." 2.03 12. PASSENGERS ARRIVING REFUSING TO COMMENT 2.22 13. MORE PEOPLE ARRIVING 2.30 14. (SOUNDBITE) (German) SEBASTIAN HASSLACH, PETER HASSLACH'S SON SAYING: "The sky turned red and after about 5 seconds there was a loud bang. (Question: where exactly was this?) "From our hotel in a northern direction." 2.46 15. PETER HASSLACH WITH LUGGAGE 2.55 16. PASSENGERS WITH LUGGAGE WAITING 3.02 17. WIDE OF PASSENGERS WAITING 3.06 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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  • Location: MUNICH, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Reuters ID: LVA1FRFL6HVNRSLCCCR83GV3WSIO
  • Story Text: First German tourists arrive home after Sharm
    El-Sheikh bombings.


    The first German tourists who were on holidays in
    the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh have returned home on
    Saturday night (July 23).

    Some 90 holiday-makers landed at Munich airport at
    2120 (1920 GMT) aboard a plane chartered by German tour
    operator "Aeroflight."
    About 25 people left the plane in Munich while the
    remaining passengers continued the flight to Frankfurt.

    Earlier on Saturday, bombs ripped through shopping and
    hotel areas in Sharm el-Sheikh, killing at least 88 people
    and wounding 200 in Egypt's worst attack since 1981.

    One blast tore the front off the Ghazala Gardens Hotel
    in Naama Bay, the site of most of the resort's luxury
    hotels.

    A car broke into the hotel compound and exploded in
    front of the building.

    According to a spokesman for Germany's federation of
    travel agents (DRV), no Germans were killed in the
    incidents but two German youths suffered cuts and were
    flown home on Saturday.

    It was not immediately clear where the youths were
    taken for treament.

    "I am so glad to be back, but sad at the same time
    because it really is a great country," Verena Foerster told
    waiting reporters upon her arrival in Munich.

    "Unfortunately, we were only able to spend one day of
    holidays there. But the one day was great," Foerster said.

    Peter Hasslach, who was on the same flight, said "we
    are just happy that we survived."
    His small son Sebastian spoke of the sky "turning red
    and then there was a loud bang" as he saw events unfold
    from his hotel, some 15 minutes away.

    Meanwhile, the German emabssy in Cairo has sent a
    crisis team to Sharm el-Sheikh to take care of the needs of
    its nationals.



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