NETHERLANDS: QUEEN BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS AND PRIME MINISTER WIM KOK TOUR AREA OF ENSCHEDE DEVASTATED BY EXPLOSION AT FIREWORKS WAREHOUSE

Record ID: 977230

  • Title: NETHERLANDS: QUEEN BEATRIX OF THE NETHERLANDS AND PRIME MINISTER WIM KOK TOUR AREA OF ENSCHEDE DEVASTATED BY EXPLOSION AT FIREWORKS WAREHOUSE
  • Date: 14th May 2000
  • Summary: ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS (MAY 14, 2000)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. PAN/MV: MEDIA WHO HAVE GATHERED TO REPORT ON THE DEVASTATING EXPLOSION AT FIREWORKS FACTORY/SATELLITE TRUCKS (2 SHOTS) 0.13 2. SV/WS: INTERIOR - MEDIA/DUTCH PRIME MINISTER WIM KOK AT NEWS CONFERENCE (2 SHOTS) 0.19 3. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (ENGLISH) DUTCH PRIME MINISTER WIM KOK SAYING: "When being there in that street (it was) as if bombs had fallen on roofs on parts of houses in various streets..still smelling (referring to the smell of the fireworks) what happened. You feel without any power or possibility to help becuase we don't know what is below." 0.51 4. WIDE OF NEWS CONFERENCE 0.54 5. (SOUNDBITE) (English) KOK SAYING HE IS SHOCKED BY THE EVENT BUT THEY MUST FIRSTLY HELP THE PEOPLE INVOLVED AND SECOND TO THEN TO FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED 1.16 6. SV: MEDIA 1.20 7. WIDE OF PRESSER, KOK LEAVING 1.31 8. WS: EXTERIORS OF SPORTS ARENA WHERE HOMELESS SHELTERING PEOPLE CHECKING LISTS OF INJURED, PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN FOUND 1.39 9. MV/SV: PEOPLE LOOKING AT LIST OF INJURED (3 SHOTS) 2.07 10. SCU: (SOUNDBITE) (DUTCH) WITNESS/CASUALTY IBRAHIM TOUCHOAF SAYING: "We went out and at approximately 100 metres from our house a second explosion happened. There was fire everywhere, everything turned red. The sky was filled with stones. We ran, everybody ran. Some people fell. An ambulance just stood still; a ghost town." 3.40 11. WIDE OF TOUCHOAF TALKING TO REPORTER 3.46 12. SV: PEOPLE STANDING OUTSIDE THE SPORTS ARENA 3.53 13. VARIOUS PREOPLE TAKING CLOTHES INSIDE ARENA (3 SHOTS) 4.29 ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS (MAY 14, 2000) (POOL - ACCESS ALL) 14. PAN: INSIDE SPORTS ARENA, WHICH IS BEING USED AS A SHELTER FOR TEMPORARY HOMELESS PEOPLE 4.37 15. MV/SCU: NETHERLANDS' QUEEN BEATRIX VISITING PEOPLE IN ARENA (2 SHOTS) 4.55 16. SV/SCU: QUEEN BEATRIX PLACING HER ARM AROUND DISTRESSED WOMAN (2 SHOTS) 5.16 17. WIDE OF HALL 5.21 ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS (MAY 14, 2000) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 18. VARIOUS OF RESTRICTED AREA, POLICE CHECKING CARS, BURNT-OUT VEHICLES BEING TAKEN AWAY (5 SHOTS) 6.15 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 28th May 2000 13:00
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  • Location: ENSCHEDE, NETHERLANDS
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Reuters ID: LVA4EDSJBRR1F8L5RCFS83ZUS6I4
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