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主题：埃及Dahab遭恐怖袭击
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看到这则消息，相信不少潜友都会如我一般感到切身之痛。埃及这颗明珠又一次被血玷污了。
Triple blasts rock Egypt resort
At least 23 people - including three foreigners - have been killed and 62 wounded in three blasts in the Egyptian resort town of Dahab, officials say.
The explosions occurred in a bustling area popular with tourists during the early evening when many people would have been out in cafes and restaurants.
Eyewitnesses spoke of seeing debris and body parts in the streets.
Southern Sinai peninsula resorts have been hit before. About 60 people were killed in Sharm el-Sheikh last July.
The attack on Dahab, a low-key resort popular with Western backpackers, budget Israeli tourists and divers, was swiftly condemned.
Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak called the explosions a "wicked terrorist act", and US President George W Bush described it as "heinous".
The Hamas-led Palestinian government said it "strongly condemns this criminal act which flouts our religion, shakes Palestinian national security and works against Arab interests".
Israel's ambassador in Cairo urged Israelis in Sinai to leave immediately, and a stream of Israeli cars were reportedly heading to the Israeli border at Taba by late evening.
Israel has offered to send emergency teams to the scene, the defence ministry said.
'Pools of blood'
Dahab was full with Egyptians enjoying a Spring holiday and Israelis marking the end of Passover when the three explosions occurred in quick succession at about 1900 (1700GMT).
They ripped through two restaurants and a supermarket in the busy shopping and restaurant area close the seafront.
The BBC's Mark Perrow in Dahab saw people sitting dazed near to where the explosions took place as police set up cordons.
"The street was littered with debris and I could see pools of blood," Belgian tourist Quentin d'Aspremont told the AFP news agency.
Another witness, French tourist Cecile Casey, said the wounded were evacuated very quickly to nearby hospitals.
The roads in and out of Dahab are controlled by checkpoints and a virtual curfew exists in the city, our correspondent says.
International tourists, meanwhile, have retreated, shocked, to the main hotels and the resort is dark and silent, he adds.
Three foreigners - one of them a German child - were among 23 people killed.
Among the 62 wounded there were three Danes, three Britons, two Italians, two Germans, two French people, a South Korean, a Lebanese, a Palestinian, an American, an Israeli and an Australian.
Militant group
Dahab, which means gold in Arabic, lies on the coast of the Gulf of Aqaba, around 100 miles south of the border with Israel.
In July 2005, more than 60 people died in a bomb attack in the tourist area of the resort town of Sharm al-Sheikh, further south along the coast.
The BBC's Heba Saleh says the Egyptian authorities have uncovered a militant group active in the Sinai, but they have said very little about it.
The group is also thought to have been responsible for bombings in the resort of Taba in October 2004, when 34 people were killed.
ATTACKS ON EGYPT TOURISM
July 2005: Bombings in Sharm El-Sheikh kill 64, mostly tourists
April 2005: Two attacks on tourists in Cairo, leave three dead
October 2004: Bombings in Taba and Ras Shitan kill 34, including 12 Israelis
Nov 1997: Gunmen kill 58 tourists and three policemen at Hatshepsut temple in Luxor
Sept 1997: Nine German tourists killed in a bomb attack at Egyptian museum in Cairo
April 1996: Gunman kills 19 Greek tourists outside Cairo hotel
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