Thursday, February 17, 2011

Update

Some good news.  The seminarians are found, alive and well, but wandering around aimlessly near Arusha, not knowing what to do with themselves and totally unfamiliar with Africa....

Nope.  They are a resourceful group and reached Jo at the Lutheran Center, who contacted Don.  Now bus travel is being arranged to meet the Tantanca bus at Chalinze, half way to Iringa.  Our group will leave to meet them at the rendezvous.

It is now 1:50 PM here.  The airport has re-opened.  I will go there tonight and hope my flight will actually take off.  Last night's flight will get in at 9:55 PM and should have left about 8:30 AM.  The KLM site doesn't list the actual departure. 

My flight is still scheduled and has left Amsterdam.  It is 25 minutes late, but I will suffer through that without complaint if that is the extent of it.  There was another blast this afternoon, but our understanding is that it was a scheduled detonation of a remaining bomb.  The tweets and news wires say there were 32 people who died in the blasts.  Reuters has a little story and says 20 are dead.

We are all well.  The Iringa folk will be leaving soon for a wait at Chalinze until the Augustana people arrive.  More breaking news as it happens!

Ken

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