Listen up, pilgrim!
Posted on 02/03/2006 2:14:34 AM PST by hershey
The early morning news anchor on CBS in Boston read a breaking news report, just off the wires, that a Red Sea cruise ship with 1300 people had vanished off radar....
I'm in...
Paging Moses...
ALARM - Loss of contact with a ferry-boat transporting 1.300 people
CAIRO - the Egyptian and Saoudi maritime authorities lost contact Friday with a ferry-boat transporting 1.300 passengers, as a majority of the Egyptians, which sailed at sea Rouge, coming from Saudi Arabia, one learned from sedentary source.
Sounds like hajj pilgrims.
CAIRO, Feb 3 (Reuters) - Coastal stations have lost contact with a ferry carrying some 1,310 mainly Egyptian passengers from the Saudi port of Jeddah to Safaga on Egypt's Red Sea coast, security sources said on Friday.The ferry should have reached Safaga at 2 a.m. local time (midnight GMT) but did not arrive, they said.
Dayum.
About 1300 souls aboard. Lifeboats spotted in water.
Egyptians...this gets complicated. (You'd think Jews wouldn't book vacations on an Egyptian ship, esp. after that Muslim attack at a Egyptian resort last year. Just a thought, I have no info on who's aboard. Just the 1300 figure.) What a mess.
Oh boy, lifeboats. Maybe the ship was overloaded, tipped over.
I'm just reading this!
AP News Alert
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- Egyptian maritime officials say lifeboats containing people have been spotted in vicinity of where cruise liner was last seen on radar.
CNN has it.
You can be certain there were no known Jews on board if the ship went to Jeddah.
Thanks! I'll never get back to bed.
Bush's fault. For sure.
CAIRO, Egypt (AP) -- An Egyptian cruise ship with 1,300 people on board has disappeared in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast, Egyptian maritime officials said Friday.The ship "Salaam 98" disappeared from radar screens shortly after sailing from the port of Dubah, western Saudi Arabia, at 7 p.m. local time on Thursday night, the maritime officials in Suez said. They spoke on condition of anonymity as they were not authorized to address the media.
The ship was due to have arrived at Egypt's southern port of Safaga at 3 a.m. local time, but did not, the officials added.
"We lost all contact with the ship shortly after it left the Saudi port," said one maritime official at Suez.
Its last position on the radar screens was 62 miles from Dubah.
The ship is owned the Egyptian company El-Salaam Maritime Transport Co. and was carrying 1,300 passengers, the official added. Some of the passengers are believed to be pilgrims returning from the annual hajj to Mecca, which ended last month.
Oh dear, that's terrible. Thanks for the ping, Petronski.
Already posted
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1570806/posts
It would have been nice if they had included the weather state.
"Yes?"
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