Cairo Honeymoon: A Tale of Two Nightmares

by Barry Artiste | May 4, 2008 at 06:29 am | 105 views | add comment | 0 recommendations
Cairo Honeymoon: A Tale of Two Nightmares by Barry Artiste

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Barry Artiste, Now Public Contributor

The last words Newlyweds on their Cairo Honeymoon would ever envision to hear would be "Jump, I promise to catch you"!!

These desperate words from a injured husband to his gravely injured wife, who jumped from the inferno into the desert sands of Cairo.

This inferno resulting from the horrific tour bus crash and the aftermath that followed, as this Newlywed couple from Surrey were wrapping up their Honeymoon in Cairo, only to end up with the tour bus erupting into a fatal fireball.

Families from both sides of the world are enduring their own nightmare thousands of miles apart, not knowing the full impact of how two young lives are changed forever by the action of one, who failed to negotiate a turn at high speed, resulting in the death and misery of what was to be a Fairytale Happy Ending  turned Apocolyptic Nightmare for all. 
 

Richard El Adam pleaded with his bride, Jennifer, to jump from a burning bus in the Egyptian desert moments before it exploded into a giant fire ball."He jumped first and he said to her: 'I promise I will catch you; You have to jump,'"

Sharon Pannu, Jennifer's mother said Friday.

The tragic bus crash outside Cairo early Thursday local time killed nine people and injured 29 others, including the honeymooning Surrey couple.

The Pannu family home was abuzz with grieving, praying and supportive relatives and friends Friday while reporters came and went.Sharon and Steve Pannu and their other children have led a fearful, tortured existence since a cousin of Richard El Adam called Wednesday evening B.C. time to tell them the couple had been in a horrific accident as their tour bus was about an hour from the Cairo airport.

They were heading to the airport to catch a flight home from their month-long romantic getaway.

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