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Africa
/ 9 October 2004

‘I saw parts of bodies, some fingers’

Pools of dried blood, shredded bathing suits, charred cars and rubble were left behind on Friday after a car bomb rocked Egypt’s Taba Hilton hotel, killing a still-undetermined number of people. The attacks there late on Thursday night and at a backpacker’s resort left at least 30 people dead and more than 100 wounded

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/ 8 October 2004

Al-Qaeda offshoot claims Sinai blasts

A group calling itself ”Brigades of the Martyrs Abdullah al-Azzam” and claiming to be part of Al-Qaeda claimed responsibility on Friday for the bomb blasts targeting Israeli tourists in Egypt, in a statement posted on an Islamist website. Meanwhile, in the devastated wing of Egypt’s Taba Hilton hotel, tourists struggled to free the bodies of two people skewered on tangled metal.

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