Great Tragedy in History Today | The unprecedented hijacking tragedy in Egypt’s volcano in Big Island, Egypt

I. Volcanic eruption in Japan's Big Island

November 23, 1986, Japan's largest island of volcanic eruptions.

Located in the southern part of Tokyo, Oshima is a famous volcanic island under the jurisdiction of Tokyo and is also a tourist attraction. Local residents have always regarded the Mt. Sanyuan in the center of the Big Island as a “spiritual fire” as a patron saint of luck.

November 15, 12 years of silence Mihara mountain and spray from the fire. The fire is shining, the earth is ringing and tourists are gathered. The local tour operators are excited and want to revive the tourism business, which is currently at a low tide, with spectacular splendor. However, no one expected that the "God's Fire" would brew into a disaster that forced more than 10,000 islanders to leave the island.

November 23 morning, Mihara began massive release of energy, the sky accompanied by magma fire spread to all sides. In addition to the old fire exits, there were 16 new fire exits and an earthquake occurred. Only on the 23rd of this day, "a four-level earthquake occurred eight times and there were 80 earthquakes ." The situation is getting worse.

Strict monitoring of the volcano of Tokyo, the Japan Meteorological Agency and the authorities in the face of this emergency situation, in the evening 10:50 formally issued a command to all Islanders Islands refuge.

Staff of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Office, the Police Department, the Fire Department, the Self-Defense Forces, the Coast Guard, and companies such as electricity, telephones, and gas companies and companies are already on alert. As soon as the emergency mobilization order was issued, they immediately dispatched ships to transport residents on the island. Despite Heidengxiahuo, mobility, to the next day 5:20, in addition to more than 200 employees, police, fire, monitoring personnel staying outside, more than 10,000 islanders overnight all safely evacuated and no casualties. At the same time, the Tokyo Metropolitan Government has urgently arranged 40 evacuation sites and prepared adequate relief supplies.

The Port District Sports Center is one of the refuge places. At the peak, it hosted more than 1,600 islanders and 30 Hong Kong District Government employees served here. The Tokyo Health Bureau sent doctors and nurses. Dozens of washing machines and boilers, bedding, food, medicines, and telephones are all provided free of charge. 214 elementary and junior high school students from the Big Island were immediately included in primary and secondary schools in the port area to continue their studies. Due to the urgency of the evacuation of the Big Island, many residents did not close their doors, turn off the taps, and turned off. Farmers engaged in raising chickens and raising pigs were even more worried about whether there was an accident at home. The policemen and firefighters left behind were checked on a household-by-resident basis as required by residents.

After November 24, Mihara eruption calmed down. However, minor earthquakes still occur frequently. The 15 waters around the Big Island are still brown and cracks appear in many roads. It is difficult to judge whether the volcano will erupt again. But the livestock kept on the island were to be fed, and the flowers and herbs were to be taken care of. The islanders were restless. November 29, the authorities decided that, effective December 3, out of one person per household in stages by boat back to the island cuisine on the island to stay no longer than 7 hours if something happens to the collection on board in 20 minutes. It is said that this situation could be maintained until around December 20, only to go back for Christmas all islanders.

The Oshima firefighting and Tokyo disaster relief activities reflect the Tokyo authorities' "strain" ability. This ability is comprehensive. It requires both disaster prevention and disaster relief training, as well as people's high sense of responsibility and discipline. It is also inseparable from the material basis of modern transportation means and unimpeded information. Tokyo's disaster relief activities have provided people with useful experience and inspiration.

II. Egypt's unprecedented tragedy of hijackings

The surviving passenger walks off the plane

November 23, 1985, Saturday, 20:00 5 minutes, EgyptAir Boeing 737 passenger plane from Athens airport into the sky, flying to Cairo.

15 minutes after the passenger plane took off , the stewardess is busy distributing newspapers and magazines to passengers. Suddenly, a 20-year-old Palestinian youth seated in the front row slogan stood up and took a gun out of a plastic bag. At the same time, an Egyptian young man sitting in the back seat took it out. The gun raised the ammunition. They also shouted at the same time: "Nothing ! The plane was taken over by us ! " Then the two men put on masks very sensibly.

At this time, the third Arab youth who was standing near the driver's cab quickly rushed into the cab. He held open-capped ammunition in his left hand, opened an insurance pistol in his right hand, and said to the driver’s head: “The plane was Hijacked ! I ordered you to fly to Libya ! "

"No, not much fuel, the plane will fall into the sea before it flies. Flying to Athens, or Cairo, or Italy is possible." The driver replied.

"Then fly to Malta ! " The pilot had to obey the command of the hijacker and turned around to fly west.

At this time, two other hijackers also got up from different seats and fiercely called passengers to stand up one by one and hand over their passports. The passengers performed their orders silently.

When a hijacker came in front of a standing male passenger and reached for his passport, the man was babbling in his arms. The last thing he got out was not a passport but a pistol. The hijacker in front of him fell down. The man then shot at other hijackers, but was outnumbered. The hijacker's bullet fired at him from different directions. The man and the surrounding passengers and the air hostess suddenly fell into a pool of blood. This person was not ordinary. The passengers, but the Egyptian security personnel responsible for security on the passenger plane.

“No tamper ! ” the hijacker groaned, then he shot two shots and the bullet shot through the top of the cabin. A moment later, the stunned voice of the stewardess was heard in the loudspeaker: "Ladies and gentlemen, please be quiet. Please sit down, do not contact, and request an emergency landing.

After two hours eleven minutes airliner flight, 16 points to 22 in Luga Airport,

Killing

The passenger plane just stopped at the Luga airport. The hijackers contacted the airport authorities and asked for fuel. They asked the airport to send a doctor to say that there were casualties on board.

The airport authorities knew that it was a matter of great importance. They refused the request of the hijackers to refuel, but they agreed to send a doctor to board the plane. A few minutes later, a doctor boarded the passenger plane and with the help of the pilot, he lifted and assisted. He immediately sent seven people including a hijacker who was killed in an aerial shootout and an Egyptian security guard. Staff and injured two passengers, two stewardesses.

After the driver returned to the plane, the leader of the hijacking plane took the passenger’s passport and tapped the names of seven Philippine women dancers and four Egyptian women. He said in a loud voice, “We are friends. You are free. Please get off the plane ! "In a moment, the head of the hijackers ordered the name of a 24 -year-old Israeli girl. The girl felt happy for a while, thinking that freedom was right before her eyes. But where did she expect her foot just stepped up and down the escalator of the plane? The head of the hijacking plane was a shot at the back of her head. The girl shouted "Help" and she fell down on the escalator. But she did not die at the time and struggled to climb down. The leader of the hijacker saw that she was not dead and rushed out of the cabin and gave her several shots.

When the head of the hijacker returned to the cabin and another 23 -year-old Israeli girl, the girl refused to come out. Several hijackers stepped forward and twisted the girl out. He fired a shot at the back of his head and then asked a few passengers to drag her out of the cabin. At this point, the leader of the hijacker was extremely proud, holding a pistol, dancing ammunition , singing and dancing again. The female passenger met his murderous look, his hands covering his face and could not bear to witness; the male passenger was angry and could not speak out. Fifteen minutes later, the leader of the hijackers called another American male passenger. The 28 -year-old American passenger is a biologist who has just finished his vacation in the Middle East and is preparing to return to the United States. I saw his hair messy, but it was very calm and walked to the cabin door. The head of the hijacker followed, and shot his head in one shot. This American biologist can be said to be extremely smart. At the moment of the gunshot, he fell to the ground and he could not move. Although it was bloody, the bullets only scratched his scalp. When he was picked up and thrown out of the cabin, he heard that the hijacker had returned to the cabin and he climbed up and ran away, taking a life.

Twenty minutes later, another American woman who was called could not be as lucky as this biologist. Her head was shot with bullets and she was dragged out and thrown.

After another 15 minutes, the leader of the hijackers called up the second American woman. But the woman did not show up. She fought with the hijackers who had come to marry him. Finally, the hijackers tied her hands back to her with a rope and put it. Pressed down on the ground, the head of the hijackings fired a shot at her back and the bullet went out from her right eye. When the woman was thrown into the extravehicular person, his hands still tied counter-face to the ground, his nose was badly bruised, but is a miracle, she was actually dead, this time is November 24, Sunday, 2:20. The mobster yelled at the airport's command tower by radio: "We have already killed five people ! We will not refuel in an hour and a half. We will also kill people ! "

While the Prime Minister of Malta was negotiating with the hijackers, officials from the United States, Greece, Israel, Egypt, Libya and the PLO rushed to the airport and tried to mediate the release of the hostages.

However, the hijackers do not want to talk to anyone. They even do not want dialogue with the PLO representatives. They only propose that the Libyan ambassador to Malta should board the plane to talk to them. However, the Libyan ambassador only told the hijackers over the radio at the airport control tower over and over again the Libyan government’s attitude: Libya would not accept the plane because of a bloody incident. Then the ambassador walked out of the command tower and flew to Libya.

At noon, the hijackers proposed to send lunches on the passenger plane and their demands were met. The rice-suppliers at the same time defused the Maltese government’s message: The hijackers considered the release of nine Palestinian children and one Canadian baby on board and allowed the airport personnel to take away the dead and injured passengers who were thrown by them outside the passenger aircraft.

However, the hijackers refused to consider these requirements and threatened to “who is close to the passenger plane and fired at them ! ” “If anyone wants to attack us, we will blow up the passenger plane ! ”

Faced with this situation, the Prime Minister of Malta decided: "We must not yield to terrorism. In the face of cruel and inhuman humanitarian hijackers, we must never leave Malta with the impression of weakness. This matter should be done by our security forces. To deal with it, now the only thing that can be done is to make a surprise attack and rescue the hostage as much as possible."

At this time, the Egyptian side came a message: The Egyptian government decided to take a raid on the passenger plane. The crisis will be well resolved. After obtaining the consent of the government of Malta, the two C-130 transport planes of the Egyptian military are at the Luqa airport. The other side of the runway landed and brought 25 Egyptian commandos and related equipment.

Decided to attack

When Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak learned of the passive holding of Egyptian passenger planes and related intelligence, he was very angry. Six weeks ago, "Achille - Lauro" cruise liner was hijacked event upsets him through the night, while American fighter aircraft to intercept Egypt's transport robbery against ships, and gave him at home, put on the spot internationally. Therefore, as soon as he heard the news that the plane had been robbed, he immediately instructed Foreign Minister Maged, who was about to visit Western Europe, to postpone starting his time and negotiate with Libya.

Foreign Minister Majid immediately called Libya’s Foreign Minister Obeidi: “We think that your country is the background of this hijacking. This is a very serious problem.”

"I can't accept this accusation from you, but I need to find out more about the situation. Please call 15 minutes later," answered the other person. However, after 15 minutes, his phone call will no longer work.

President Mubarak then proceeded to an emergency meeting. The participants were the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Minister of Defence, the senior military officers and intelligence officers. At the meeting, intelligence officials introduced information from various sources;

The meeting continued for 90 minutes. Finally, President Mubarak personally decided to make a surprise attack on the passenger plane. He was determined to punish the terrorists at any cost. He commanded Major General Kamal - Atiyah, commander of the Egyptian Commando Command, to take full responsibility for the implementation of the raid plan and instructed to inform the United States of this Egyptian decision.

This decision of Egypt was quickly supported by the United States. The USS Coral Sea’s aircraft carrier on the Mediterranean’s Sixth Fleet immediately went on alert, closely monitoring the movements over the Mediterranean Sea, and dispatched several F-18 fighters and F-2s. Early warning radar aircraft stationed at the NATO Air Force Base in Sicily, Italy, in preparation for the emergency transport of the Egyptian transport aircraft carrying the commandos on the way to Malta while intercepted by Libyan aircraft. At the same time, three anti-terrorism experts from the United States also traveled to Malta along with the Egyptian Commando’s aircraft. They carried advanced electronic sounding devices and, by detecting the voice of the hijackers, could determine their position within the passenger aircraft. However, due to the Maltese government’s dissatisfaction with the United States’ Middle East policy and its refusal to let the Americans directly participate in the campaign to rescue the hostages, the three U.S. experts had stayed in the Egyptian transport plane and did not come out.

Night raid

18:45, Luga airport control tower suddenly came on the loudspeaker Egyptian airliner driver hurried voice: "inside the passenger cabin of the front and back doors are locked, only to enter the aircraft through the cargo door." The original The driver with more than 10 years of flying experience realized that the Maltese government or the Egyptian government would never wait for this, expecting an attack right in front of him, so he took the opportunity to send him in front of the toilet on his hijacking head. Very important information came. At this time, the raid was ready and it was only dark.

20:15 Egyptian President issued a formal command of the raid. Five minutes later, the lights at Luga Airport suddenly went out and the airport was dark. Raid began, 12 points and four Egyptian commandos rushed to the three-way emergency exits on the aircraft cargo door and wing.

All the way to the commando rushed to the front of the cargo cabin, opened the cargo door to attack. At this time, a small yellow light on the dashboard of the driver's cab was on, and the driver realized that the cargo door had been opened. In order not to detect the hijackers’ heads, he turned off the yellow light and transferred the hijackers. The head of attention, he took the initiative to talk with him: "In this case, if I, will not surrender without refueling ..."

Who knows the voice in the cargo hold still alerted the hijackers. The head of the hijacker turned and rushed into the cabin from the cab and took out the ammunition in his hand . The other hijackers also followed two shots of ammunition . The ammunition exploded in the cabin and caught fire. The lights went out and a piece of smoke blew up. The hijackers followed by a burst of shooting. The passengers fell in ammunition explosion and shooting. The survivors hurried to the ground, but they were suffocated by heavy smoke. Many passengers were suffocated by heavy smoke.

At this time, the leader of the hijacker suddenly remembered the driver and rushed back to the cab. The driver’s head was shot. No one knew that the driver had been prepared for it and his head was blinking. The bullets passed over the scalp, and the axe that had been prepared was lifted. The head of his head was an axe, and the leader of the hijacker crashed.

Scored from the cargo door Captain Commando Muslim Todd - Heike Levy was blown up ammunition hijackers threw a leg, but scored three emergency exits commandos quickly shot to the hijackers, gunfight More than a minute. Then the commandos quickly searched for surviving passengers and helped them withdraw from the airliner.

The entire raid on the rescue of the hostages lasted for 10 minutes, after which the Egyptian commandos returned home by air. The big thing left behind by the Lugar airport was that Maltese medical personnel were busy. The Prime Minister of Malta, Bonic, urgently called on medical personnel to go to the airport for rescue. The whole time of the hijacking incident was not long, only 24 hours before and after , but it caused serious consequences for 60 dead and 28 injured, and it has become the most tragic hijacking case to date.

Third, the chain explosion in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq

Explosion site

2006 November 23, Baghdad explosions.

In Sadr City, a Shi’ite neighbourhood in Iraq’s capital, Baghdad , a series of explosions occurred on November 23. The armed elements detonated five car bombs and fired two mortars. At least 160 people were killed and 257 injured. According to Iraqi officials, this serial bombing was the most bloody slaughter by Al-Qaida’s director. This is the most serious attack in Iraq since the invasion of the United States in 2003. The civil war has been on the horizon.

From at 15:10 on the 23rd start of a spate of Sadr City 3 suicide car bomb exploded at intervals of about 15 minutes, was attacked two and a market square.

The official Iraqi spokesman Abdel Karim Khalaf condemned the bloody massacre of al-Qaeda. He said that the serial bombing was clearly caused by al-Qaeda. There was no damage to the government buildings and armed equipment during the attacks. They injured many innocent people. Common people. This is Al Qaeda's usual practice. He also said that the police had successfully captured a suspect who had detonated a car full of explosives, but he did not disclose his nationality.

The information in this article comes from the Internet and was reorganized and edited by China Rescue Equipment Network.