In an overnight operation that went on into the early hours, four military Hercules planes with teams of doctors and psychologists flew into Mombasa and evacuated injured Israeli tourists and all those who wanted to leave. Earlier, the Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon vowed to hunt down the perpetrators of the attacks. Twelve civilians - including one Israeli adult and two children - were killed alongside the three suicide attackers at an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa. In a separate attack, two missiles narrowly missed an Israeli holiday jet that had taken off from the city's airport.

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