.- Hundreds of tourists have to spend the night at Cairo International Airport, due to curfews and insecurity in the Egyptian capital for political protests and vandalism. In the terminal, where some flights were canceled and others are delayed, foreigners and Egyptians who have decided to sleep there for fear of the chaotic situation is calm and resigned.
Some of them were in Cairo since Friday, when protests against the regime of Hosni Mubarak reached a critical point, and have preferred to take refuge at the airport to wait for the release of their flights. Mikel is the case of Sarah, a Spanish couple who landed on 24 this month in Egypt for a cruise on the Nile and visit the capital.
A Cairo arrived yesterday morning and the guide who accompanied them recommended to stay at the hotel, the Fairmont is located on the avenue parallel to the river, close to the epicenter of the protests. "We spent a lot of fear and even went to panic," said Sara, who said he reached a point where "the glass front of the hotel blew up." Although the departure of his plane is scheduled for tomorrow, have gone to the airport at noon today, after seeing how it was looted a mall near the hotel and how people burst into the streets with sticks.
"We decided that the airport was a safer place when we saw the workers in the hotel with wooden sticks and even metal," said Sara. The protesters are still in the streets despite the curfew, the government's resignation and the appointment by two general Mubarak as vice president and prime minister.
These changes to address the crisis afflicting the country since last Tuesday, have not prevented Egypt is thrown into chaos amid unprecedented protests that have left dozens dead and more than 1,500 injured. Also at the airport were Eva and Juan, Seville, although their flight departs on 31 January.
The Seville managed to change one of the tickets and the woman flying to Spain tomorrow at 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT), while Juan is looking for a new ticket. "I'm going and my husband is," lamented Eva, who told Efe that fear came upon arrival at its entrance, a crowd that prevented moving the van.
Juan and Eva was found that all the hotel windows were broken and even the letters with the name of the falls. Also, think tanks and saw him pass they heard shots. "I was greatly impressed to see people with sticks hotel, yet the hotel workers have behaved excellently and at all times have tried to reassure us," said Eva, who was frightened to see that "the police had gone." The looting have increased in the absence and in many areas police have been deployed to citizen patrols armed with sticks and iron bars policing the streets in the absence of the police. 
Some of them were in Cairo since Friday, when protests against the regime of Hosni Mubarak reached a critical point, and have preferred to take refuge at the airport to wait for the release of their flights. Mikel is the case of Sarah, a Spanish couple who landed on 24 this month in Egypt for a cruise on the Nile and visit the capital.
A Cairo arrived yesterday morning and the guide who accompanied them recommended to stay at the hotel, the Fairmont is located on the avenue parallel to the river, close to the epicenter of the protests. "We spent a lot of fear and even went to panic," said Sara, who said he reached a point where "the glass front of the hotel blew up." Although the departure of his plane is scheduled for tomorrow, have gone to the airport at noon today, after seeing how it was looted a mall near the hotel and how people burst into the streets with sticks.
"We decided that the airport was a safer place when we saw the workers in the hotel with wooden sticks and even metal," said Sara. The protesters are still in the streets despite the curfew, the government's resignation and the appointment by two general Mubarak as vice president and prime minister.
These changes to address the crisis afflicting the country since last Tuesday, have not prevented Egypt is thrown into chaos amid unprecedented protests that have left dozens dead and more than 1,500 injured. Also at the airport were Eva and Juan, Seville, although their flight departs on 31 January.
The Seville managed to change one of the tickets and the woman flying to Spain tomorrow at 10:00 local time (08:00 GMT), while Juan is looking for a new ticket. "I'm going and my husband is," lamented Eva, who told Efe that fear came upon arrival at its entrance, a crowd that prevented moving the van.
Juan and Eva was found that all the hotel windows were broken and even the letters with the name of the falls. Also, think tanks and saw him pass they heard shots. "I was greatly impressed to see people with sticks hotel, yet the hotel workers have behaved excellently and at all times have tried to reassure us," said Eva, who was frightened to see that "the police had gone." The looting have increased in the absence and in many areas police have been deployed to citizen patrols armed with sticks and iron bars policing the streets in the absence of the police.
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