By Aileen Robertson and Cara Dodson

FIFE HOLIDAYMAKERS returned home yesterday after being plunged into the “chaos and terror” of the Egyptian bomb attacks.

Tourists spoke of seeing dead and injured lying in the streets, and panic and hysteria as holidaymakers fled for their lives.

A Dunfermline family described how they cheated death.

Stuart Burns (34), his partner Diane Gibson (32) and her 11-year-old son Connor were staying at the Ghazala Gardens Hotel in Sharm El Sheikh when it was targeted by terrorists on Saturday.

Glenrothes couple Sylvia and Gerry Duffy were also caught up in the blasts.

The couple, who were staying in the Ghazala Gardens hotel, narrowly escaped after they decided to go back to their room on the night of the blast just 30 minutes before a bomber drove his car into the lobby.

The subsequent blast, the first of three to go off around the holiday spot, destroyed the front of the hotel.

Meanwhile, Britons gave their support to defiant Egyptians protesting against terrorism in the bombed resort last night as the search for missing tourists continues.

With a number of British tourists feared dead, Embassy staff were joined by around 15 consular experts from the Foreign Office who are helping with the painstaking task of looking into reports of relatives who have not been in touch.

Last night, Fergus Stewart, general manager of the Hyatt Regency Hotel, said a young couple in their 20s, who had been staying there, had been missing since the bombings, which killed a total of 88 people.

“We know of two guests who are definitely missing,” said Mr Stewart from Glasgow. “They are British.”

Family members are due to fly in this morning to start searching for them, he added. He did not know where in Britain the couple came from. Two men staying at the Ghazala Gardens Hotel were also said to be missing.

Meanwhile, a seriously injured 16-year-old girl was flown to the UK last night by air ambulance from a hospital in Cairo.

The Foreign Office said a man in his 20s, who remains in hospital in Cairo, was also seriously injured.

One injured British tourist yesterday left the hospital in Sharm El Sheik, leaving three remaining.

Speaking from his parents’ home in Pitcorthie Road, Mr Burns last night said they were struggling to come to terms with what they had witnessed at the end of their holiday.

The family had gone out for a birthday celebration and were not in the hotel when it was attacked in the early hours of the morning.

Mr Burns said they had decided not to eat at the hotel that night because they had taken off the normal menu.

Later, while at a nearby pub with friends, he heard what he described as an “immense bang.”

He said, “The curtains of the pub all blew in. I looked and saw three Egyptians running with a look of panic on their faces.

“We were told it wasn’t a bomb and it was just an electricity fault.

“But I wasn’t happy and I went out. I knew something wasn’t right. That’s when the second explosion happened, just when I walked off the steps of the pub.

“The explosion took my breath away and threw my hands up. I couldn’t breathe. All I could see was Egyptian people running up the street. A lot of people were seriously hurt.”

While Mr Burns was outside, Ms Gibson and Connor were terrified that something had happened to him.

He said, “We really felt under attack. We didn’t know if they were attacking British tourists or Egyptians.

“Outside there was broken glass everywhere and we all ran up the street as fast as we could.”

Mr Burns, who works as a mechanic, did not want to describe the carnage he saw in too much detail but said there were “pieces of bodies lying about.”

He said the site was one of “sheer devastation” and the front of the hotel had collapsed.

Tourists were told to get into a clear space to avoid danger and the family huddled up with a group of people in an area of desert for three to four hours.

“Quite a few people were being sick. They couldn’t control themselves because of the shock.

“The front of the hotel was obliterated. Everyone in those rooms must have lost their lives. Normally we would have been sitting there, right at the front where the bomb went off.”

Despite the devastating scenes, Mr Burns said Connor handled the situation “amazingly well,” and even took the hand of another youngster.

Connor said, “I made friends with a lot of children. When I saw them at the airport I was just glad they were OK.”

An emergency flight was organised to take holiday makers home and the family arrived back in Manchester at 3 am yesterday morning.

“No matter how tired we were we just wanted to get home so drove back up. We stopped at service stations to get coffee on the way,” said Mr Burns.

“That all three of us are untouched is unbelievable. We’re thanking our lucky stars.”

Sylvia Duffy (44) said, “At night we usually went and sat in the reception area where they had a bar.

“On Friday we were sitting there as usual and then moved into another bar within the hotel, where the bomb actually exploded later on.

“It was a quiet night so I asked Gerry if he wanted to go back to our room. Luckily for us he agreed.

“We had just fallen asleep when we were woken by an almighty bang and windows blew in and even patio doors smashed.

“We opened our door and there was smoke everywhere. We saw a girl shouting, ‘Please help me,’ and she was covered in blood.

“There was mass hysteria but we made our way downstairs.

“Folk were crying and we saw charred dead bodies, one woman had blood pouring from her eye and was taken away in an ambulance.

“We’d been there just short of a fortnight and had got to know many of the staff and other holiday makers so we know some of them didn’t make it.

“Afterward we sat outside for four hours and there were still folk screaming, looking for their children—it was all absolutely horrendous.

“We were flown home on a secure plane to Gatwick and then to Manchester and we got home last night.

“Nobody spoke but there was a real sense of family because we had all been through that together.

“We were very, very lucky since we haven’t been able to sleep as every time we close out eyes the scenes comes back to us.

“I don’t understand how the bomber managed to get near the hotel as security was tight and there were lots of police about as well.

“Next year is our silver wedding anniversary, but the way we feel at the moment is we don’t want to leave Scotland again.”

Mr Stewart was one of those who attended last night’s noisy demonstration in front of the bombed Ghazala Gardens Hotel, its ruins now shielded by a series of huge sheets.

Thousands of Egyptians marched up and down the stretch of main road in front of the devastated site, bearing placards that read “Stop Terrorism” and “Sharm is there to stay, you will go away.”

Amongst the surging crowd were both British ex-patriates with links to Egypt and holidaymakers drawn by the shouting and chanting.

Libby Eltouni (51), originally from Purley, Surrey, said, “I’m glad they are doing this because it is about showing that being Muslim is not always about being violent.”

Sam Horton, a 19-year-old gap-year student from Colchester, Essex, said, “Everyone seems to have come together. I never realised it would be like this.”

Bella Shah (18), also from Colchester, said, “It’s nice to see Muslims band together against terrorism. They are as scared as we are.”

History and politics student Sean Pierse (21), from Stockport, added, “The message is universal.”

Members of the public laid flowers and candles to create a shrine in front of the devastated hotel, including Mr Stewart and his tearful wife, Pamela.

Police in Egypt were searching for three people they believe may have escaped after carrying out the bombings.

They were also trying to establish whether a fourth terrorist, who died when he drove the truck bomb into the Ghazala, was a suspect believed to have been behind two bombings last October that killed 34 in the Taba and Ras Shitan resorts.

Officials said the Sharm bombing gang appeared to have entered the town in pick-up trucks loaded with explosives hidden under vegetables.

Meanwhile, US Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez said he believed al Qaida was behind both the Egypt attacks and those in London.