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04-25-2006, 09:31 PM
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WHEN TERROR STRUCK: Food left half eaten on a plate after diners fled from the bombing. At least 23 people were killed in three nearly simultaneous explosions in an area popular with tourists.
A New Zealander dining at an Egyptian restaurant when three terrorist bombs exploded says she saw an "orange ball and dust clouds" in blasts that killed one friend and injured two others.
Penny Dawson of Palmerston North, holidaying in Egypt, had just sat down to eat when the restaurant in Dahab was rocked by explosions that killed at least 23 people.
Moments later the third bomb detonated two doors away, 15 metres from where she sat.
"I thought the first explosion was a car backfiring, only much louder, so I looked up and another went off," she said.
"I saw an orange ball and dust clouds. We just hit the floor then someone started running and we all started running."
Ms Dawson, 27, a pharmacist who has lived in London for the past two years, was nearing the end of a 13-day tour of Egypt. She was in the restaurant with about 25 others from the tour to celebrate the end of their holiday.
She grazed her leg when she fell while fleeing the bomb scene.
After the blasts at the Sinai peninsula resort at 5.10am yesterday New Zealand time, her group ran down the road, away from the string of restaurants lining the beach.
There was glass everywhere on the street, and people were running around frantically.
She said: "I knew a guy outside the restaurant up from us – I used to joke with him and he was dead."
Ms Dawson said two Australian women from her group had been buying alcohol up the road from the restaurant when one bomb exploded. They were taken to hospital with neck injuries.
Ms Dawson planned to fly back to London today.
New Zealand authorities were still working last night to establish whether any Kiwis were hurt but there were so far no reports of any casualties, a Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry spokeswoman said.
Egyptian authorities said at least 23 people were killed, in the explosions, including a German boy and two other foreigners.
Sixty-two people were wounded, including a number of foreigners.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attack bore many of the hallmarks of the mysterious Sinai-based group that attacked the Hilton hotel in the resort of Taba to the north of Dahab in October 2004 and the upmarket resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to the south in July 2005.
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WHEN TERROR STRUCK: Food left half eaten on a plate after diners fled from the bombing. At least 23 people were killed in three nearly simultaneous explosions in an area popular with tourists.
A New Zealander dining at an Egyptian restaurant when three terrorist bombs exploded says she saw an "orange ball and dust clouds" in blasts that killed one friend and injured two others.
Penny Dawson of Palmerston North, holidaying in Egypt, had just sat down to eat when the restaurant in Dahab was rocked by explosions that killed at least 23 people.
Moments later the third bomb detonated two doors away, 15 metres from where she sat.
"I thought the first explosion was a car backfiring, only much louder, so I looked up and another went off," she said.
"I saw an orange ball and dust clouds. We just hit the floor then someone started running and we all started running."
Ms Dawson, 27, a pharmacist who has lived in London for the past two years, was nearing the end of a 13-day tour of Egypt. She was in the restaurant with about 25 others from the tour to celebrate the end of their holiday.
She grazed her leg when she fell while fleeing the bomb scene.
After the blasts at the Sinai peninsula resort at 5.10am yesterday New Zealand time, her group ran down the road, away from the string of restaurants lining the beach.
There was glass everywhere on the street, and people were running around frantically.
She said: "I knew a guy outside the restaurant up from us – I used to joke with him and he was dead."
Ms Dawson said two Australian women from her group had been buying alcohol up the road from the restaurant when one bomb exploded. They were taken to hospital with neck injuries.
Ms Dawson planned to fly back to London today.
New Zealand authorities were still working last night to establish whether any Kiwis were hurt but there were so far no reports of any casualties, a Foreign Affairs and Trade Ministry spokeswoman said.
Egyptian authorities said at least 23 people were killed, in the explosions, including a German boy and two other foreigners.
Sixty-two people were wounded, including a number of foreigners.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility but the attack bore many of the hallmarks of the mysterious Sinai-based group that attacked the Hilton hotel in the resort of Taba to the north of Dahab in October 2004 and the upmarket resort of Sharm el-Sheikh to the south in July 2005.
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