Katrina Britons prepare to return

[Benbow]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4211464.stm

Nicola Cherrie, ... said her mother had been forced to loot supermarkets, while avoiding armed gangs. "She was awfully upset and she just said she'd never been so starving in her whole life, she'd never seen so many guns, she'd never been so scared."

British tourists 'flee Superdome'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/4208792.stm

Jamie Trout 22, from Sunderland, was among 50 tourists stranded in horrific conditions in the devastated city.

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Mr Trout's brother Jonathan said: "We got a text message from someone whose phone was working which said he was alive but in terrible conditions. Then last night our mother got a call saying the situation had deteriorated. He witnessed a good deal of violence, with scuffles going on and people breaking things. "The group really feared for their safety because they were being targeted because they were the only white people there."

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"The situation in the dome was really dire with temperatures of over 100 degrees, no working toilets since Sunday and there have been, I think about 30,000 people all getting very desperate. ..." "There was a lot of heat from the people in there, people shouting racial abuse about us being white."