A truck filled with natural gas crashed into a wall surrounding a synagogue on the Tunisian resort island of Djerba earlier this afternoon, killing at least six tourists and injuring about 20, the official news agency reported. The driver of the truck and a police officer were also killed in the attack, the agency said. The casualties are reportedly French and German tourists, according to Israel Radio. Reports reaching the Foreign Ministry said no Jews using the synagogue were hurt in the attack, Army Radio said. Helicopters were mobilized to bring the injured to Djerba's regional hospital. They suffered from burns of varying degrees of seriousness. Exact details about who was in the structure at the time of the explosion are unclear as of this posting. The nation's official news agency, TAP, qualified the blast as an "accident."
Sure I believe it. And I'm an Irishman named Murphy...Tunisia's tourist industry is real important to that small nation's economy. Carthage and the other old Roman ruins are very interesting. When Palestinian outrage starts affecting the economies of those somewhat sympathetic with their cause, they'll lose that sympathy. Which, would be OK by me.
Posted by Bob [www.rsballard.com/weblog] 4/11/2002 12:26:13 PM |