Relief boils up to anger at airport – TERROR HITS HOME – AMID THE WRECKAGE: [2 Edition]
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THE mood is turning nasty.
While the first planeloads of evacuees were shocked and grieving, increasingly people returning are angry and want answers.
At Sydney airport last night, one man off a Qantas flight from Denpasar ended up in an altercation with a group of Middle Eastern- looking men and had to be quietened by Australian Protective Services officers and airport security staff.
He kept shouting: “I saw dead bodies all over. They come into this country. Lock me up. Arrest me. They come into this country. I saw dead bodies.”
The distressed man, who according to bystanders had watched a man die in his arms, was kept apart from the other passengers and eventually led away.
Although many passengers expressed delight at being back on Australian soil, or relief at being alive, others were simply angry.
Robyn Quick, of Sydney, said: “I want someone to ask John Howard why we weren’t told that there was a threat. Bali was dangerous. Other nationalities knew that.
“We got on that plane in the morning, we should have been told.”