- Title: SIERRA LEONE: RESIDENTS TRAPPED IN FREETOWN EVACUATED TO SAFETY.
- Date: 16th January 1999
- Summary: FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE (JANUARY 15, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV/PAN/MV: SUNSET ON BEACH/ BODY WASHED UP BY SEA (2 SHOTS) 0.12 2. GV/MV/PAN: VARIOUS OF EVACUEES GATHERED, WAITING FOR HELICOPTER/ BAGGAGE ON TROLLEY (9 SHOTS) 0.49 3. MV: EVACUEES WITH TOURISTS 0.54 3. MCU: SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) DUTCH WOMAN HANNEKE ROEBBERS SAYING: "Yes it was horrible, burned bodies, skulls, everything. One man tied like this, still killed. It was horrible, all shells, all the buildings, busted, broken, everything" 1.12 4. MCU: SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) BRITISH WOMAN ALTHEA LAWRENCE SAYING: "Nightmare, waiting to end" 1.21 5. MV/CU: SUSA KARIM, SIERRA LEONEAN WOMAN OF LEBANESE EXTRACTION, SITTING WITH BAG (SHE IS NINE MONTHS PREGNANT) (2 SHOTS) 1.26 6. CU: SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) KARIM SAYING: "Of course I was afraid because I'm nine months pregnant. At any time I would deliver. So I was afraid for me not to deliver because there was no doctor and there was a curfew out so that everybody was at home" 1.41 7. CU: SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) RADWAN HAMOUD, SIERRA LEONEAN BOY OF LEBANESE EXTRACTION, SAYING: "Of course, it was the first time to hear bombs in my life and I've never seen this type of fighting" 1.54 8. MCU/SCU: WOMAN HUGGING CHILD/ LITTLE GIRL BEING GIVEN DRINK (2 SHOTS) 2.02 9. GV TO CU: LITTLE GIRL WALKS UP TO CAMERA 2.09 10. MV/PAN: GROUP OF EVACUEES 2.12 11. GV: GEORGE BIGUZZI, BISHOP OF THE MAKANI DIOCESE OUTSIDE OF FREETOWN, AT AIRPORT 2.19 12. CU: SOUNDBITE (ENGLISH) BIGUZZI SAYING: "Well it's very difficult to make sense of this thing. As a man of the church and I suppose any man of good will, I'm appalled at the level of violence that is taking place, at the level of destruction, the loss of human life. I'm here as a religious people to promote life, and to promote harmony, and to promote justice, and to promote the well-being of people because God wants us for life and not for death, he wants us for good" 2.52 13. GV/PAN/MV/SCU: VARIOUS OF EVACUEES GETTING ONTO HELICOPTER (5 SHOTS) 3.32 14. SCU/GV: HELICOPTER LEAVING (3 SHOTS) 3.42 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE
- Country: Sierra Leone
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