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Tourists die in balloon crash

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Nouakchott - Two French tourists were killed and four seriously injured on Thursday in Mauritania when the hot air balloons they were travelling in crashed, the official AMI news agency reported.

The French tourists were part of a group of 12 people travelling in two hot air balloons in the mountainous region around Atar, 400km northeast of the capital Nouakchott, when a strong sandstorm damaged their balloons, causing them to plummet, the agency reported.

After receiving emergency treatment in Atar, the injured were transported to the capital, it added.

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Patrick says... Jaba.. OK. You want to go off the subject of this article a little. First you must not I am not anti the Israeli people in away way. Israel was created by the UN with no little or no consultation with any Arab states at the time. Lets us say then as now, those Arab states don't want Israel there. How can you blame them for not wanting it there ? If you were them would you accept Israel is a sovereign state ? Israel is most definitely an apartheid state. I have been there and seen it with my own eyes. Where do the Palestinians get the funding to run their "country". Israel correct ? Why ? So it part of Israel correct ? I also know many Israelis don't agree with their own government's stance on Palestine but have keep quite about it. So much for Israeli democracy. Iran has never acted in an aggressive manner with any country other than Iraq. Israel on the other hand is the most aggressive militarily in the middle east. Most recently their posturing just shows their leader's arrogance. There is no proof Iran has a nuclear weapons program In my opinion Israel will not continue to exist as it is if they continue to harass the region. There will come a time when change will happen in Israel. It is my fear that the people of Israel will suffer if and when those changes happen and they are not negotiated changes. So it needs someone in Israel will balls, like Mr F.W de Klerk, to change Israel's need for militancy and promoting dialogue. Read the article...

 
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