Tourists from the UK and Belgium have taken to social media to share their horror after their relaxing evenings by the pool were tarnished by the terrifying sight above them
Holidaymakers have shared dramatic footage from their hotel balconies in Cyprus (stock)(Image: Ascent/PKS Media Inc. via Getty Images)
Holidaymakers in Cyprus have experienced a chilling sight as their tranquil sun-soaked getaway took a terrifying turn, with the sky above the eastern Mediterranean island becoming the stage for a frightening spectacle. As tensions escalate in the Middle East, British TikTok user Sapphire shared a video of the moment she saw a series of Iranian missiles lighting up the night sky. “Crazy we can see this,” she wrote alongside her clip.
Sitting by her hotel’s swimming pool, she added to her “POV” [point of view]: “You’re having a nice drink in Cyprus and then you see Iranian missiles heading towards Israel.” In a similar vein, Belgian national Filipe de Almeida used the same platform to share his own shocking experience in a video. “The way I instantly knew what this was, my heart felt so heavy watching this,” he expressed.
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Echoing Sapphire’s sentiment, he continued: “Point of view – you are in Cyprus for holidays taking pictures of the moon and see missiles from your hotel balcony.”
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Indeed, as Filipe panned his camera over his pool, he captured more than a dozen fiery red dots in the distance, heading towards Israel in a retaliatory attack.
Reacting to Sapphire’s post, one TikTok user confessed: “I’d never considered that people actually see missiles going from one country to another that is terrifying.”
