Scene of second blast in Nuweiba

Описание: (8 Oct 2004)
Nuweiba, near the camping area of Ras Shitan
1. Various of wounded lying on stretcher
2. People standing next to bus
3. Pan from people carrying luggage to emergency workers
4. Damaged huts on beach, man walking
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Voxpop (no name given):
"I think two cars came and they exploded, the bomb, it was a bomb and two people died and ten wounded and that's it. This is our life story, you know."

6. Israeli emergency workers carrying body on stretcher
7. Damaged buildings
8. Various of damaged buildings and damaged pickup truck
9. Sign with name of holiday resort
10. Various of holiday resort
11. Pan from sign reading "Moon Island Village, restaurant, camp, beach" to pickup truck arriving at scene

STORYLINE:

A string of bombs have hit resorts popular with Israelis in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, killing at least 27 people and sending thousands streaming back into Israel on Friday.

The most devastating of the Thursday night strikes were at the Taba Hilton, where a car laden with explosives crashed into the lobby of the hotel and detonated, an Israeli official said on condition of anonymity.

There were reports of a second or third explosion within the hotel compound, one of which may have been caused by a suicide bomber.

Those explosions were followed by two smaller blasts in the area of Ras Shitan, a camping area near the town of Nuweiba south of Taba, witnesses said.

Rescuers who first reached the scene spoke of at least five people killed and 10 injured in Nuweiba.

No credible claims of responsibility emerged immediately, though suspicion for the clearly coordinated car and suicide bomb attacks fell quickly on al-Qaida-inspired militants.

Tawhid Islamic Brigades published a claim on a Web site that has been used frequently for such claims from Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Jamaa Al-Islamiya Al-Alamiya, the World Islamist Group, called an international news agency in Jerusalem.

Neither group offered details of how it carried out the attack, as such claims usually do, and there was no way to confirm their authenticity.

A third group that called itself the "Brigades of the Martyr Abdullah Azzam, al-Qaida, in the Levant Egypt," posted a claim on an Islamic Web site known for running messages purportedly from the al-Qaida terror network.

The claim described the attacks as a message to the Palestinians, Muslims everywhere, and the Israeli government and people.

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