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“There were little babies crying, people shouting, broken glass and blood all over the floor"

A passenger has spoken of the ‘trauma’ she experienced when her flight was diverted to Ataturk airport as suicide bombers struck last night.

Diana Eltner, 29, a Swiss psychologist, was travelling from Zurich to Vietnam but had been diverted to Istanbul after she missed a connection.

She said: “There were little babies crying, people shouting, broken glass and blood all over the floor.

“It was very crowded, there was chaos. It was traumatic.”

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Paul Roos, 77, a South African tourist on his way home, said he saw one of the attackers “randomly shooting” in the departures hall from about 50 metres away.

He said: “He [the attacker] was wearing all black. His face was not masked ... We ducked behind a counter but I stood up and watched him. Two explosions went off shortly after one another. By that time he had stopped shooting.

“He turned around and started coming towards us. He was holding his gun inside his jacket. He looked around anxiously to see if anyone was going to stop him and then went down the escalator ... We heard some more gunfire and then another explosion, and then it was over.”