- Title: EGYPT: TWO BUSES CARRYING TOURISTS OVERTURN IN HEAVY RAIN
- Date: 9th January 1999
- Summary: NEAR RAS GHARIB, EGYPT (JANUARY 8, 1999)(REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 1. SLV/SV/CU OF THE BUS WRECKAGE (15 SHOTS) 1.25 2. SLV EXTERIORS OF AL SALAM HOSPITAL 1.29 HURGHADA, EGYPT (JANUARY 9, 1999) (REUTERS - ACCESS ALL) 3. MCU/SV INJURED GERMAN TOURIST MONIKA LAKUSEN IN BED (2 SHOTS) 1.39 4. MCU (German) MONIKA LAKUSEN: "The bus fell on the side and I was thrown through the window." 1.50 5. SV GERMAN TOURIST IN X-RAY ROOM 1.58 6. MCU/CU DOCTOR LOOKING AT AN X-RAY (2 SHOTS) 2.09 7. MCU (English) DOCTOR HELMI AL TANAHY, DIRECTOR OF AL-SALAM HOSPITAL: "We have about 47 patients who came to the hospital today sometime between 10 and 12 o'clock and most of them are alright except one who has a fractured spine. It is a complete fracture of the spinal cord he is not able to move his limbs, that's a paralysis of his lower limbs. One of the other patients has a fracture in the skull but she is stable and is on a ventilator, she needs mechanical ventilation, at the moment we can't transport her from here without a mechanical ventilator but the rest of the patients are mostly stable. Six patients had fractured clavical, one had a fracture dislocation of the right shoulder, one of them had a diclocation of the left shoulder. All of them have been (treated), and all of them are alright." 3.03 8. SLV PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL HALL 3.10 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: NEAR RAS GHARIB AND HURGHADA, EGYPT
- Country: Egypt
- Reuters ID: LVA28K0QCANPH5I3HTPWTWZU38OE
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