It's a hajj ship.
Posted on 02/03/2006 2:13:13 AM PST by UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide
A cruise ship carrying 1300 passengers in the Red Sea has been reported disappeared from radar by Egyptian authorities. No other details....
It's a hajj ship.
Also a 'LATEST' headline on the BBC News website now...
German TV said it was a ferry.
" It's a hajj ship."
'course it is. It's full of Hajis!
By SALAH NASRAWI, Associated Press Writer 4 minutes ago
CAIRO, Egypt - An Egyptian cruise ship with 1,300 people on board has disappeared from radar screens in the Red Sea off the Saudi coast, Egyptian maritime officials said Friday.
Lifeboats carrying people have been spotted on the sea near where the ship, the "Salaam 98," was last seen on the radar screens, maritime officials said.
via CNN: An Egyptian helicopter spotted a lifeboat carrying three people, an official said. He added the search was being hampered by bad weather.
ON CNN TV --
By SALAH NASRAWI, Associated Press Writer 1 minute ago
CAIRO, Egypt - 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.
Lifeboats carrying people have been spotted near where the ship, the "Salaam 98," was last seen, maritime officials said.
Saudi and Egyptian naval vessels and helicopters were searching for the ship, which 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 to have arrived at Egypt's southern port of Safaga at 3 a.m. local time, 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.
An Egyptian helicopter spotted a lifeboat carrying three people, an official said. He added the search was being hampered by bad weather.
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.
Why does Allah seem to keep having a go at His pilgrims? Just wondered.
Contact lost with ferry in Red Sea
03 Feb 2006 10:31:40 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds name of ferry, details of passengers)
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 (midnight GMT) but did not arrive, they said.
They named the ferry as the Al Salam 89, which has a gross tonnage of 6,650 tons and is owned by the Egyptian company el-Salam Maritime Transport. According to the company's Web site, the vessel can carry about 1,400 passengers.
Most of the passengers are Egyptians working in Saudi Arabia, rather than pilgrims returning from the annual pilgrimage to Mecca, the sources said.
A sister ship, the Al Salam 95, sank in the Red Sea in October after a collision with a Cypriot commercial vessel. In that case almost all of the passengers were rescued. (EGYPT-FERRY, Writing by Jonathan Wright, editing by Patrick Worsnip; Cairo bureau: +20-2-578-3290/1))
al-qaeda I bet....cruise ships just don't disapear without a distress signal.
cnn tv covering it now
conflicting information
no confirmation
dissapeared off the saudi coast
some sources tell ap that they have seen vessels in the area where the ship was last seen 60mi off the coast of saudi arabia
conflicting information on the passengers identity
some passengers are hajj pilgrims
reuters reports most passengers are egyptian laborers who work in saudi arabia
ship was headed to safaga, egypt
dissapeared from radar 62 miles off the coast
reports of rescue vessels in the area but no confirmation
ship dissapeared at 5am est
no confirmation of how many people are on board
spokesman for the company who owns the ship didnt know how many people are on board
egyptian govt initiated a search
gosh this cnn idiot is babbling and contradicting herself
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cnn is talking about bacteria and fungus on the pillow now
ok more details - supposedly new details
ben wedeman reporting
nope, nothing new.
Did the ship have offensive cartoons or Danish cookies on board?
We should ask Ray Nagin.
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