Sunday, August 15, 2010

How Sick - Bomb Threat at Lourdres

Oh this is just sick. Pilgrims evacuated after bomb threat at Lourdes

— Thousands of people, many disabled or ailing, were evacuated Sunday from the shrine at Lourdes in southern France after a bomb threat on the Catholic holy day of Assumption. The pilgrims returned after explosives experts scoured the area.................
n an announcement read in six languages, authorities ordered everyone evacuated just as a midday Mass was supposed to begin.

.....About 900 gravely ill pilgrims, including many on stretchers, were taken to a secure place while explosives experts with sniffer dogs fanned out around the shrine, Lourdes Mayor Jean-Pierre Artiganave said on France-Info radio..............

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