Second night stranded in the port of Dubai on board the MSC Euribia for a group of Cagliari residents .
They have been stopped since Saturday, when the escalation in the Middle East halted their transfer to Doha, the departure airport for the return journey to Italy.
On the ship there are many Italians and two groups of people from Cagliari, one of seven and the other of four or five people .
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Some passengers are now considering booking their own transportation to reach Oman by land and then catching a flight to Europe . But the general consensus is to wait for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to organize a task force to bring the Italians home.
The ship, at least for now, appears to be a safe haven, but the bombing continues in Dubai. So much so that the over two hundred Italian students stranded in the city yesterday took refuge in the garage bunkers of the hotel where they are staying.
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