'Angry? I am furious we weren't warned' British holidaymakers terrifyingly close to the devastated resort in Kenya are demanding to know why the British Government stood back and allowed them to travel there. They talk to OLGA CRAIG, in Mombasa

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: December 1, 2002| Author: | Copyright information

The Davidsons thought that they had arrived in a tropical paradise last Tuesday when they landed at Moi airport in Mombasa. Two days later, they realised they had jetted into hell. From their sun- loungers at the Sea 'n Sands Hotel, just a mile from the Paradise Hotel, they heard the blast as three al-Qaeda terrorists rammed an explosives-laden four-wheel-drive into the reception block, killing 15 Israelis and injuring 80.

"We could see the smoke rising, smell that acrid, cloying odour of flesh burning," Hazel Davidson, 46, from Worthing, East Sussex, said. "We thought it must have been a ...

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