BRITISH MILITARY FORCES FLEW SATURDAY THE MEMBERS OF A SERIOUSLY INJURED GERMAN-LEBANESE FAMILY OUT OF THE SOUTHERN LEBANESE VILLAGE OF BLIDA TO CYPRUS. THE GERMAN FOREIGN MINISTRY IN BERLIN CONFIRMED THAT FOUR GERMAN CITIZENS HAD BEEN FLOWN IN BRITISH HELICOPTERS FROM BEIRUT TO A HOSPITAL IN THE BRITISH MILITARY BASIS IN CYPRUS. A GERMAN MILITARY DOCTOR, WHO IS A MEMBER OF A CRISIS TEAM ASSISTING GERMAN EMBASSIES IN THE REGION, TOLD DEUTSCHE PRESSE- AGENTUR DPA THAT THE PARENTS, THEIR 15-YEAR-OLD SON AND 12-YEAR-OLD DAUGHTER HAD BEEN HIT BY BULLET SPLINTERS AND HAD SUSTAINED BURNS. THE GIRL HAD LOST A LEG, HE SAID. ALL FOUR WERE SUFFERING FROM SHOCK AND THEIR CONDITION WAS SERIOUS. A SPOKESWOMAN FOR THE FOREIGN MINISTRY SAID THE GERMAN EMBASSY WAS TRYING TO ARRANGE THE FAMILY'S ONWARD JOURNEY TO GERMANY AS SOON THEY WERE ABLE TO BE TRANSPORTED.
